The Memory Keeper (2025) Movie Script
1
Giving one man that
which he wants to see
isn't worth the pain
inflicted on another.
Do you know who said that?
The 54th president of the
United States of America,
Alexander Russell,
December 17th, 2066.
Hmm.
Oh, well.
Looks like you've done
your homework, Mr. Harvey.
It was the most infamous
day in the history of mankind.
I own a few memories.
And his assassination, too?
Not interested in
memories from that day.
I have his wife's.
Oh, I know.
But do you have his?
Russell's?
His memories were wiped out
the moment his brains painted
that podium on which
he made his name.
I'm not talking about Russell.
His killer?
Which one?
- How much?
- 100 million.
But that's not
what I want for it.
July 5th, 2079.
I have reason to believe that
you own a memory from that day.
That memory is not for sale.
I'm not buying.
I'm trading.
Running errands
for the Alliance now?
Why do you think they want it?
What's in that memory
that's got them so worked up?
A verse.
A Bible verse?
What Bible verse?
Elizeus Carrier,
Department of Memory.
Put the weapon down.
Maurice Harvey, by virtue
of the authority vested in me
by the 31st Amendment
of the United States of America,
I sentence you
to a complete memory wipe.
Have you selected your ten core
memories to be redistributed
to your next of kin
after the wipe?
Sid.
I knew your mother.
What'd you say?
Ask Luke.
Everything that is concealed
will one day be revealed.
Tariq?
Morning, Elizeus.
What am I supposed to do
with this?
Whatever people do with them.
Oh.
Never seen these before
in real life.
Thank you, Eli.
GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL 1
The secrecy angered us,
some of us who still believe
and some of them who don't.
Almost like nothing changed.
So is Sid still coming?
He's off sick.
What am I looking at?
Colors, people's clothes,
the sky.
That sort of thing.
What's wrong with them?
The question should really be,
what's not wrong with them?
You ever visited a place
from your childhood and thought,
"This is much smaller
than you remember it"?
Memory distortion.
Yeah, when you visualize
something that happened,
details, they, um,
they change over time.
They tend to get fuzzy.
You know, things like the size
of objects, the size of rooms.
Colors, obviously.
One moment they're green,
the next teal.
By the end, sky blue.
But this...
Too perfect.
Hmm.
Fools me.
It would fool anyone.
You see, everyone's
seen video footage
of Russell's assassination.
Everyone knows what his wife
was wearing that day.
Yeah, the person
who made this is counting
on our knowledge of her outfit.
Misdirection.
Ironically,
that's what gives it away.
If you know where to look.
But this,
this is clever forgery.
There's maybe two analysts
in the world
who could spot that
this is fabricated.
Well, let me guess,
are you one of 'em?
Authorities are calling it
a deliberate
and targeted attack.
Keeper Francis Morrison's
tragic death
marks the second time
a Keeper has been assassinated
following the passing
of his predecessor,
Keeper Jane Carrier,
whose body was found under
suspicious circumstances
nine years ago in 2079.
Details are still emerging--
Carrier.
But this pattern
raises serious--
Keeper Morrison was lecturing
at university this morning.
Gets shot
three times in the chest.
Paramedics worked
on him for 20 minutes.
Campus saw the whole thing.
Well, if someone saw it...
Oh, it's out in the open,
broad daylight,
right in front of the students.
He could've been there.
My son, he went there for a bit.
He could've been there.
Could've caught a bullet.
First time in my life
I'm glad the religious fool
left with everyone else.
It won't take me long
to identify a suspect.
Oh, the suspect's been
identified and eliminated.
The Memory of Falsehood's safe,
so there's that.
Thing is, it doesn't, um,
have a Keeper anymore.
Mr. President.
Mr. McCarthy.
Elizeus.
I've already briefed
Agent Carrier.
What's next?
We need to determine
if this was a lone wolf
or there's a
whole pack behind him,
and I think Agent
Carrier runs point on this.
Can we have the room?
How is Noor?
Great.
And your sister, are you
following her campaign?
I see.
I think it's wise for you not to
be a part of this investigation.
Mr. President,
I am clearly better equipped
than anyone to handle this.
This is the second time
that something
like this has happened.
Digging into this case
is not gonna tell you
what happened to your mother.
So yes, I think it's best
if you sit this one out.
- Mr. President--
- I'll see your chief now.
Thank you, Agent Carrier.
The Memory of Falsehood
shattered everyone's faith,
and neither Richard David
nor his predecessor
have done anything about it.
And with all the respect
I owe Keeper Morrison,
this man knows the truth.
He knows what's
in the Memory of Falsehood,
yet chooses to
keep it away from us.
And they will
say he is only doing
what he was appointed to do,
but he always had a choice.
Why would he keep it
away from us?
If the Memory of
Falsehood showed anything
that proved him right,
why would an atheist
like Keeper Morrison
not want to let
the world know that?
I'll tell you why.
Because it didn't
align with his beliefs,
and Richard David knows that.
They both chose to hide it
from us.
And if that's the case,
then they've lied to you, to us.
Has Richard David
forgotten the first sin?
Have we?
I was still a teenager
when he made my mother
his Keeper.
Ever since, she never,
ever stopped warning me
about the first sin.
Said whoever told
a lie should be ashamed,
punished.
Well, they will.
I will fight that battle for us,
no matter what he
does to keep it from you.
I make you this promise.
Elect me,
and every single one of you
will see the
Memory of Falsehood
the day I get into office.
No more hiding.
And it was during a campaign
appearance earlier today
that presidential
candidate Marie Carrier
pledged to publicly release
the Memory of Falsehood.
This move is unprecedented and--
It shall not be made manifest.
It is expected to
sway millions of voters.
Mm-mm.
Particularly in the nation's
remaining religious states.
It shall not be known.
So its impact is likely
to resonate far beyond
Hey.
How was your day?
Is this from today?
Cedric Sanderson.
"The first man before the many".
Guy who got sent to
Mars and never come back.
Don't-- don't you
learn this in school?
Not that.
This is a collector that
we arrested yesterday.
He said that he knew
your grandma,
or he said something like
that before we wiped him.
Did you know that most people
on their deathbeds
make a big confession,
mostly because
they feel guilty?
Some even admit to
killing people, you know?
What, you-- what,
you learn this in school today?
No, this.
I'd say this collector dude
should be
on the list of suspects.
He said he met your grandma,
not that he killed her.
- Well, genius.
- Oh, here we go.
Most people on their deathbeds--
He wasn't on his deathbed.
Kinda was.
I mean, he just says out
of nowhere he knew her,
and then he says this?
Maybe he was
too afraid to tell you,
and this is his way of
saying that he did it.
He wanted to come clean.
I mean, I would be afraid
of the anger of God
if I knew it was
the end for me soon.
Are you afraid of
the anger of God now?
I would be.
Maybe he knew
you'd find out someday,
so may as well say sorry now.
I knew your mother.
The Memory of Falsehood
shattered everyone's faith,
and neither Richard David
nor his predecessor
have done anything about it.
And with all the respect I owe
Keeper Morrison, this man...
Gotta give it to your sister.
She makes exciting promises.
You gonna vote for her?
I don't vote.
For ruining the faith
of our people.
For committing
the worst sin of all.
That body
is being taken to the morgue
right now as we speak,
ready for investigation.
What do you think happens
if she releases it?
If she's right?
All it would take a good agent
is just a couple minutes
to look inside that guy's mind,
and trace back,
and find someone
who could have ordered
a hit on Keeper Morrison.
- Sure.
- That's all it would take.
- A couple of minutes.
- Yeah, yeah, I'm with you.
But what I meant was
what happens to people
like you and me?
I think we'll be fine.
Hmm.
You think your
daughter will be fine, too?
If there's a link between
the guy who got Morrison
and anyone worth our time,
it should've been us.
So you're not on the case, huh?
Now, if someone were
to get into the morgue
and do their own investigation
without being assigned
a warrant,
they'd be court-martialed.
I guess all they'd have to
do is, uh, not get caught.
Ticker implant?
Oh, yeah.
There's a ticker implant.
Direct extraction's
off the table.
I'll dive in.
I'll only need 30 seconds.
Get the extractor.
Now it usually takes 20 seconds
for the receptor to register,
- not 30.
- I got it.
Keep your eyes down.
Let's go.
1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 6, 7.
Eli, what are you doing here?
I was just nearby,
and I, uh, wanted to see
if you were feeling better.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Coffee?
You know, it's funny.
You've, uh,
you've never been here before.
No. I, uh,
I looked up your--
your address in your file.
Huh.
You know, I-- I got a lead
on the, uh,
on the Morrison case,
and I...
just wanted to run a few
things by you.
Don't make me look inside
your head.
You Verity Alliance?
Phew.
Okay, only a couple things
can happen now.
One, I look inside your head,
your ticker goes off, you die.
Or two, I let you go,
we find you,
and we get that
ticker out of you.
Oh, you think you got it all
figured out, huh?
Eli fucking Carrier, God's gift
to the Department of Memory.
You think they send us on stings
'cause that's just our job?
You think we wipe people
like that collector guy
because we give a shit
about the black market?
Wake up, Eli!
Okay, Sid.
I gotta take you in.
We can talk about this.
You don't got a fucking clue.
You just go to work every day.
You got no idea why
they're sending us out there.
- Sid.
- We,
we are the only ones
who know the truth.
Leo, I found something.
Oh, you did, did you?
'Cause we can't use it.
It was Verity Alliance.
They're the ones who ordered
the Morrison assassination.
- I'm sure.
- Ticker blown.
Completely useless.
Dead end.
Was it self-defense?
No, it wasn't.
Was it self-defense?
Yes, sir.
Good.
I'm taking you off the force
till we find you a way
out of this.
No, you can't take me off
the force now.
- I can.
- No, you can't, Leo.
I need access.
You cannot take me off right
now, not with what I got.
I can and I will.
It's that or you will see
the four walls of a cell.
You can go and you can leave it
on the desk.
Memory file access request.
I don't have my badge on me.
Chief McCarthy just sent me
directly here.
Open up!
Hey, fellas.
How's it going?
- What's good?
- See the manifest?
Thanks.
Hot out, huh?
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.
Just wanna take one last
look at, uh, Kowalski.
- Open up.
- That's not standard procedure--
Only take a minute.
Look at me.
Look-- look at me.
July 5th, 2079. Ring a bell?
Answer the question.
July 5th, 2079.
What about it?
Your seller, she wanted it,
I need to see it.
No, no.
You don't need to see it,
you want to.
Show it to me.
Why don't you look
for it yourself?
They're encoded,
you know I can't find it.
Show me where
it is in your head,
and I'll let you
keep your memories.
Okay.
Where'd you get this?
Answer me!
Your mother gave it to me.
She wanted me to know.
Know what?
That she wasn't gonna make it
to see another day,
not after that.
She saw what she saw.
And I sure as hell know
it wasn't fruit on a tree.
I know what she wanted.
What did she want?
The truth.
For everyone.
Thank you, gentlemen.
Where is this from?
Is this a real memory?
No apparent window
or any source of natural light.
Hmm, the ceiling's too high
to be a basement,
but that could be a distortion,
but, uh,
no, I've never seen this place.
Double check.
I don't need to.
You know this person.
Just tell me if this is
a real memory or not.
Hard to say.
That's not good enough.
This isn't a native memory.
It's your copy of this guy's
copy of the original.
And God knows if the one that
he has at home is the original.
It is.
Okay.
Well, um,
as far as I can tell,
yeah, looks legitimate.
But I-- I don't wanna give you
a false positive.
Whose is it?
My mother's.
We need to talk.
Do you have a
secure place we can meet?
You wanted somewhere secure.
There's no video cameras.
There's no microphones.
The only proof of this meeting
will be in our memory records.
Your mother was going
to broadcast it, Elizeus.
She saw it.
She knew everything about it,
and she thought
it was a good idea
to show it to people.
She showed it to me.
She wasn't allowed to,
but she did.
And now I know.
No one should see this.
No one can fathom
what's in here.
But I need you to try.
No.
I thought you wanted the truth.
It's the only way
to keep this safe.
And then what?
You get rid of me just like
you got rid of my mother?
Just like you got rid
of Morrison?
You really believe I wanted
to watch my sister die?
Do you believe that
you wouldn't do the same--
I'd have done
what my mother wanted.
I'd have told the truth.
And unraveled the very
fabric of humanity?
You'll change your mind
when you see what's in this.
Put this in the hands of society
and the only thing left
for you to do is to watch
that society collapse.
And that's what your mother
was going to do.
Everywhere,
all across the planet,
people would have lost hope.
Millions of people would
have taken their own lives.
One big descent into chaos,
right back to the Stone Ages,
and you wonder why I did it.
And now Marie wants to take it
and publicly display it.
There's no Garden of Eden here,
Elizeus.
I have to take you in.
You just confessed.
It's all up here.
29th Amendment will have
Marie automatically elected.
I know you can't
forgive me for what I did,
but will you be able
to forgive yourself
if something
happens to your sister?
She releases this,
death sentence.
Good morning, America.
I hope you're all doing well
on this historic election day.
The polls will open
any moment now,
and we urge you all
to get out there and vote.
And just as a reminder,
be safe out there, everyone.
God bless.
Today?
Five years without
a single word from you,
and you choose to come
and see me on election day.
What do you need?
I need you to drop out
of the election.
Why the sudden
interest in my affairs?
It's not safe.
Me being president is not safe?
Releasing the
Memory of Falsehood.
Five times.
I know you don't really care
that much about what we do,
but that's how many times
I've tried to have a bill voted
to make this memory public,
and it failed every time.
I was ridiculed by my peers
every time.
Today, I am on the edge
of finally making things right,
and you believe
that I'm just
gonna give it all away?
Deprive people of
what they want
because you asked me to?
I don't want you to do something
that you're going to regret.
I just need you...
I'm begging you to just--
just listen to me.
How would you know?
How would you know
it's not safe?
- Marie.
- It's senator.
Soon to be president,
for that matter.
Memory of Falsehood.
What about it?
What if it's not
what you want it to be, Marie?
It will be exactly
what I want it to be.
You don't know that.
Have faith, Eli.
Okay.
And there you have it.
The candidates have met,
a firm handshake exchanged.
And now the fate
of this election rests solely
in the hands of the people.
For President David,
this could very well
be the final chapter
of his time in power.
We are also keeping a close
eye on what is happening beyond
the polling stations.
Citizens online have
called out for a protest.
A large number of voters
have expressed a desire
to march through
the city streets
to show their disapproval
of Richard David's run
as president of
the United States.
Since Marie Carrier
announced her candidacy--
Noor.
We noticed an increase
in the public's criticism over--
Noor.
David's decisions about
his latest term,
calling both the president
and the late Keeper
Francis Morrison's
reluctance to release The
Memory of Falsehood a disgrace.
The protest is scheduled
to begin closer to the
announcement
of our new president today.
And while it is still early
to call the situation
anything other than a march,
authorities are urging
the public to remain calm.
Officials advise
residents to remain indoors
while they work
to restore order.
And we will bring you the latest
update as they come in.
Despite what the
projections are telling us,
we cannot yet say for
certain that Marie Carrier
will win this race.
But if she does, it will
only be a matter of time
before she delivers The Memory
of Falsehood to the public.
Her win will be the most pivotal
moment in recent history.
But the question remains,
can we be certain
of a peaceful transition
of The Memory of Falsehood
from President David
to Marie Carrier upon her win?
And it looks like
we have some breaking news.
We are now officially
projecting the winner
of this historical
presidential race.
She won!
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
once said,
"The greater
our knowledge increases,
the more our ignorance
unfolds."
I disagree.
I would like to offer you
another quote instead.
"For everything that was written
in the past was written
to teach us
so that through endurance
taught in the scriptures and
the encouragement they provide,
we might find hope."
Romans 15:4.
Richard David and his Keeper
withheld this memory from you.
Hid it from you,
instead of gifting you
with the warm knowledge that
your lives are not meaningless.
Our nation has spent the past
25 years losing hope.
Yet we always manage
to survive the worst.
And among the many
lessons history has taught us,
one of them is
that history itself
can sometimes
be horribly wrong.
Mr. President, the protesters,
they're-- they're
marching down onto 2nd Avenue.
They're making
their way here, sir.
We were taught ideas yesterday
that we're forced
to unlearn today.
And what we learn today
will become the very things
we need to forget tomorrow.
But there is one thing
we should never unlearn:
our ability to find hope
in the darkest of moments.
A hope that something, someone,
somewhere will
bring us the answers we need.
And I have
never been more hopeful.
They're coming for you.
There's no need for you
to stay today.
Noor, I need you to go home.
What? But, Dad!
I need you to go home,
right now.
- Where are you going?
- Noor, now!
The "Memory of Falsehood"
and the "Day of Falsehood"
are terms that bring pain,
suffering, and shame.
They are terms that
were coined by pessimists,
and this memory
deserves better than that.
I want today,
November 15th, 2088,
to be marked in history
as the Day of Origins!
May God bless you.
And God bless
the United States of America!
Is it true?
If anybody finds out
that she lied...
You're gonna do something?
Make sure nobody suspects her.
I don't see how I could do that.
You're gonna work something out.
Of all the things
I envisioned her doing,
I never could have
imagined she'd do that.
Your mother wanted
to find them, our creators.
It was her idea to send
Sanderson to look for them.
Making the public believe
that he was going to Mars,
that was mine.
But if there was
even a thinnest possibility
that there was an
all-loving God behind this,
who created them before
they created us...
But it didn't matter
to your mother.
Everything lost all meaning.
Maybe she was right in the end.
Maybe telling the
truth is better than
what your sister
is doing right now.
She thinks she's following
in her mother's path,
but in reality, it's you.
Please take it.
One person must always
know what's in there.
Our survival depends on it.
And don't let anything happen
to this, Elizeus.
The Keeper doesn't just protect
mankind from this memory,
they protect
this memory from mankind.
You should go.
Leave your weapon.
I worked something out.
Elizeus.
If it's destroyed,
they will come.
President-elect Marie Carrier
secures an--
Noor.
Overwhelming 84%
of the popular vote,
managing to flip
key swing states like
Pennsylvania and Illinois.
And unlike any other election--
Noor.
Reporting on
this year's vote count
feels almost
trivial considering--
Excuse me a minute.
...our new president's release
of the Memory of Origins.
More than 20 years since
the Day of Falsehood,
the world has finally
been given the chance--
Hard to celebrate.
With all this.
Sometimes the best thing
to do to celebrate
is to simply say nothing at all.
Take in the moment.
Now that this is out there,
what happens to people
like me?
Like your daughter?
Nothing happens.
Do you really think
I'd do anything to people
who don't convert?
Marie.
Maybe silence can fix that, too.
Tariq.
We need to talk.
Uh, yeah, sure.
Noor, why don't you go inside?
I'll be there in a minute.
You okay?
I need to know
that I could trust you.
I've been looking
into something.
D-O-M doesn't know.
Look, man.
I, um,
I got somewhere I gotta be.
No, no.
This is important.
Now, I-- I know you know
what I'm talking about.
I don't.
I saw you.
Election day,
I-- I saw you looking at it.
I-- I know someone
and she can help us.
She's a senator.
We-- we-- we can--
we can build a case and--
I don't know what
you're talking about, Tariq.
And I don't wanna know.
Why don't you believe me?
We'll talk about it tomorrow, okay?
Just-- just get some sleep.
And you might not
be able to tell,
but I was a very
popular girl back then.
A militant.
A very popular militant,
thank you very much.
So, hitting a bulldog
with your car--
It was a bull terrier,
not a bulldog.
Well, hitting a bull anything
with your car
is a reputation killer,
and if your grandma
found out what I did,
I knew I'd have to
say goodbye to that school.
Of course, at this point,
the entire neighborhood
knew about Mrs. Matthews'
limping dog, and--
Was she okay?
Mrs. Matthews?
- The dog.
- She was fine.
They were both fine.
And your dad over here tells me,
"Mom needs to know.
We can't lie to her," and so on.
So on.
Mama's boy.
Do you have any idea
how many of his chores
I had to do for him to not
say anything to your grandma?
Months, and months,
and months of chores.
Did she ever find out?
I'm sure she knew deep down,
but she never said anything.
She probably knew how important
that school was to me.
She knew I wanted to
follow her path, so--
It was me.
The neighbors saw our car
hit the dog,
and they
told Mom, and, uh,
and I said that it was me
behind the wheel.
You stayed home all summer.
I made you do my chores.
Why did you do it?
I don't know. I...
Like you said, that school
meant a lot to you,
and look where it got you.
Hmm.
What do you wanna do
when you grow up?
Hmm?
Mm...
I wanna be like you.
I think we should go.
I-- I don't wanna go now.
You don't have to go now.
She doesn't have to go now.
She can stay the night.
I'll have someone drive her home
in the morning.
Yeah?
Please?
All right.
Thank you for dinner.
Thank you for coming.
See you, sweetie.
Cheers.
Did you find what
you were looking for?
Not sure what you mean.
You're not a very good liar,
so I'll ask again.
Did you find
what you were looking for?
I don't know.
Are you sure you want to?
Want to?
To know.
We've been in touch
with Mr. Hassan
for some time now.
He told us to come find you
if anything should
happen to him.
Do you know something
that we should, Chief Carrier?
How long you been following me?
Try again.
Why are you following me?
We share a common interest.
What common interest?
The truth.
No one should see this.
No one can fathom
what's in here.
But I need you to try.
So come on,
what are we doing here?
You wanna give me my job back?
I've retired.
I think Hassan was murdered.
The guy who
was stabbed 22 times,
you think that
might've been a murder?
You're definitely
onto something.
It wasn't a mugging.
Someone wanted him dead
for another reason.
I need your expertise, Leo.
Memory of Origins.
Need a little more
context there.
Tariq was murdered
because he could determine
that the Memory
of Origins was forged.
And I can prove it.
I have official statements,
testimonies, actual evidence.
Where'd you get them from?
His apartment.
Someone's reached out to me,
Leo, this woman on
the other side of the aisle.
And she wants to vote on a bill
to get rid of the president's
control over memory tech,
and Tariq was in touch with her
to give his side of the story.
You sure about this?
David gave me
something before he died,
the real Memory of Falsehood.
What's the real Memory
of Falsehood?
Real memories have defects
that you can't find in
manufactured memories.
We can do something.
This woman,
we can take this to her.
We can talk to her.
Testify?
Have you thought about
what happens to the world
if this gets out?
Have you even thought
this through?
I'm gonna tell you what happens,
is every nonbeliever thinks
they're right
over everybody else.
That's it.
Is that what you want?
The most despicable
deception in history
as in the palm
of your fucking hand.
- Please, please.
- Take a walk.
Despicable?
Have you seen the world lately?
It's good.
Not long ago,
everything was dark.
It was empty.
It was dead.
Everyone's back.
Everyone's at peace.
Everyone believes in something.
And they're wrong.
So what if they are?
What, you wanna ruin it all?
For what?
For the truth.
Fuck your truth.
Now, this is your battle.
This isn't ours.
This is not mine.
My son, he won't let me see him
yet, but he is back.
And if he leaves this country
'cause of your bullshit,
I swear to fucking Christ,
Carrier--
You just gonna sit there?
Ominously.
I don't even remember this.
Did she talk to you?
She told me.
And?
She's your daughter, Eli.
I have an entire
nation to take care of.
If I also have to look after
other people's children--
She's not other
people's children.
She's your niece.
She gave that kid a black eye,
broke his tooth, Marie.
Her and her friends,
they attacked him,
all because
he wasn't a believer.
She's a 16-year-old kid.
She's going to protests.
She's getting involved
politically.
She's doing the exact same shit
that you were
doing when you were her age.
I never called for violence
against anyone
who doesn't believe.
Bullshit.
Fucking talk to me, Marie.
You know,
on election day, you and I,
we stood in that room, together.
And you asked me to be quiet.
I didn't ask you for anything.
You asked me to keep
my mouth shut, and if I did,
then I wouldn't have to worry
about what happens to her,
your niece.
And it's a promise I have kept.
You only made these promises
so you could keep
me on your side.
That's politics.
I imagine you know what this is.
Why are you here?
To give you a chance
to explain yourself.
I did what was best
for everyone.
David told me the same thing.
I didn't believe him either.
Can you imagine a world
where everyone believed
that this is where we really
come from,
that
everything is meaningless?
Because with this,
that's what would happen.
Faith is what keeps
a society standing and growing.
Take that away, and all
you have are rotten roots.
I'm not leaving here
until I hear the truth.
Are you saying
this is what Mom wanted?
Is a world without hope
really what you want?
You know I'm right.
You must know I'm right.
How many things
have you done wrong, Eli?
How many things
have I overlooked?
The truth, Marie!
That's what she wanted.
She wanted to unite people.
And look what I have done.
Some people have been
in touch with me, Marie.
A Democratic committee.
What have you told them?
Nothing yet.
I have a hearing tomorrow.
You don't have to do this.
I can't lie.
You don't have to lie.
You don't have to be burdened
by this anymore.
It is eating you alive.
Let me take it away from you.
This is precisely why
a committee like this exists,
because you're the kinda person
that would even
consider extraction.
Don't lie to yourself.
I know you think you're
doing the right thing.
I know you think
it's what should be done.
She always made
you feel so special,
like no one
could ever lie to you.
And now you're just not
that special anymore.
I am.
If you do this, you will die.
I guarantee it.
None of what you're doing
is what Mom wanted.
She wanted to unite people,
but not with a lie like this.
This meant that she was
wrong about everything,
that her faith meant nothing.
But she was still gonna do it.
That's why he killed her.
You had her all wrong.
Thanks, Dad.
Noor?
I, um, I got you something.
It was your grandmother's.
It's been in our family
a long, long time.
Why are you giving it to me?
I gotta go away,
just a couple days.
Hey, hey.
I'll tell you when I get back.
I miss my dad.
The following hearing
will be documented through
eye-memory records.
Both our recollections
of today's meeting
could be used
in a court of law.
Do you consent?
Yes, sir.
State your name and occupation
for the record.
Elizeus Carrier,
Chief of Department of Memory.
Do you swear that the evidence
you're about to give
is the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing
but the truth, so help you God?
I swear.
Let us point out for the
record that you have
not been ordered
to come testify today.
You are here by your own accord.
Is this information correct?
Yes, sir.
Mr. Carrier, as the appointed
Chief of Department of Memory,
as well as someone directly
close to the president
of the United States,
do you have knowledge of
President Marie Carrier using
memory extraction technology
in ways that do not
conform to the law,
be it for personal gain
or political strategy?
And if so, please specify
which way the
technology has been misused.
I began investigating
President Carrier
on December 11th.
My investigation
was done personally
and wasn't the result
of an official case
that the Department of Memory.
It was completely off the books.
I just had, um, suspicions
that something wasn't right,
that the president had been
using memory technology
to her advantage
during the election,
maybe afterwards,
that she had lied to the public
about the things she had done
to get to where she is now.
My investigation
was inconclusive.
I searched everywhere,
and nothing that I found
would suggest illegal activity
on behalf of the president.
She was completely transparent
with the public,
and with myself.
Mr. Carrier, it's important
that you don't let
your personal relationship
with the president--
It wouldn't matter
that she was my sister.
No one person should
have the power to deceive
an entire nation,
an entire planet.
My relationship with her
would never be enough to
stop me from exposing her
if she had lied.
She's not.
I was wrong.
Leo, I need a favor.
Pick Noor up from school,
take her home,
get her to pack a bag.
I'll send the location.
6:00 p.m.
Call it off!
No!
I come before you today
not only as the president
of the United States,
but as a sister and an aunt
deeply concerned for her family.
My brother,
Chief of the Department
of Memory,
Elizeus Carrier,
has been missing
for five days now.
Chief Carrier is a
dedicated public servant.
I miss my brother.
His daughter Noor
and I want him back.
We have assigned our
best law enforcement
and intelligence services
to find him.
If anyone has any--
any information that could
help us in finding my brother,
I ask you to come
forward immediately.
I'd like to thank
the press for their
respect during
this difficult time,
and I will not take any further
questions on the matter.
Thank you.
Dad, if you see this,
if you see this please just
let us know that you're okay.
I just wanna know
that you're okay.
If you felt like you
had to leave, that's fine.
I...
I just-- I wanna make sure
nothing happened to you.
So, please Dad, if--
if you can,
just send us a sign.
When is he coming back?
I don't know.
Send her in.
Madam President.
What can I help you with,
Senator?
I would like you to accept
an apology.
I wanted to come
and personally apologize
about the
creation of our committee.
Why today?
Mr. Carrier,
he came to testify,
but in the end...
We tried contacting him
since his first hearing.
We haven't had any luck.
Is everything okay?
Your guess is as good as mine.
He didn't leave a note,
just a daughter.
Are you still searching for him?
In every way I can.
Testifying can be daunting.
Perhaps he left because
he was worried about the
repercussions.
There wouldn't have
been repercussions.
I mean legal repercussions.
From us.
Let him know that
we still want to talk to him,
if you hear from him.
Madam President.
Is it true?
Did you really wanna
show this to the world?
Didn't think so.
So what do you know about him?
He went to Mars, right?
Not quite.
He was sent to Mars.
We don't think he
actually made it there.
What happened?
We don't know.
We lost contact with his ship
shortly after he left.
Madam President,
they're ready for you.
How does he look?
The same as when he left Earth.
As in exactly the same.
We have a dossier for you.
I know what he looked like.
My mother knew him.
Giving one man that
which he wants to see
isn't worth the pain
inflicted on another.
Do you know who said that?
The 54th president of the
United States of America,
Alexander Russell,
December 17th, 2066.
Hmm.
Oh, well.
Looks like you've done
your homework, Mr. Harvey.
It was the most infamous
day in the history of mankind.
I own a few memories.
And his assassination, too?
Not interested in
memories from that day.
I have his wife's.
Oh, I know.
But do you have his?
Russell's?
His memories were wiped out
the moment his brains painted
that podium on which
he made his name.
I'm not talking about Russell.
His killer?
Which one?
- How much?
- 100 million.
But that's not
what I want for it.
July 5th, 2079.
I have reason to believe that
you own a memory from that day.
That memory is not for sale.
I'm not buying.
I'm trading.
Running errands
for the Alliance now?
Why do you think they want it?
What's in that memory
that's got them so worked up?
A verse.
A Bible verse?
What Bible verse?
Elizeus Carrier,
Department of Memory.
Put the weapon down.
Maurice Harvey, by virtue
of the authority vested in me
by the 31st Amendment
of the United States of America,
I sentence you
to a complete memory wipe.
Have you selected your ten core
memories to be redistributed
to your next of kin
after the wipe?
Sid.
I knew your mother.
What'd you say?
Ask Luke.
Everything that is concealed
will one day be revealed.
Tariq?
Morning, Elizeus.
What am I supposed to do
with this?
Whatever people do with them.
Oh.
Never seen these before
in real life.
Thank you, Eli.
GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL 1
The secrecy angered us,
some of us who still believe
and some of them who don't.
Almost like nothing changed.
So is Sid still coming?
He's off sick.
What am I looking at?
Colors, people's clothes,
the sky.
That sort of thing.
What's wrong with them?
The question should really be,
what's not wrong with them?
You ever visited a place
from your childhood and thought,
"This is much smaller
than you remember it"?
Memory distortion.
Yeah, when you visualize
something that happened,
details, they, um,
they change over time.
They tend to get fuzzy.
You know, things like the size
of objects, the size of rooms.
Colors, obviously.
One moment they're green,
the next teal.
By the end, sky blue.
But this...
Too perfect.
Hmm.
Fools me.
It would fool anyone.
You see, everyone's
seen video footage
of Russell's assassination.
Everyone knows what his wife
was wearing that day.
Yeah, the person
who made this is counting
on our knowledge of her outfit.
Misdirection.
Ironically,
that's what gives it away.
If you know where to look.
But this,
this is clever forgery.
There's maybe two analysts
in the world
who could spot that
this is fabricated.
Well, let me guess,
are you one of 'em?
Authorities are calling it
a deliberate
and targeted attack.
Keeper Francis Morrison's
tragic death
marks the second time
a Keeper has been assassinated
following the passing
of his predecessor,
Keeper Jane Carrier,
whose body was found under
suspicious circumstances
nine years ago in 2079.
Details are still emerging--
Carrier.
But this pattern
raises serious--
Keeper Morrison was lecturing
at university this morning.
Gets shot
three times in the chest.
Paramedics worked
on him for 20 minutes.
Campus saw the whole thing.
Well, if someone saw it...
Oh, it's out in the open,
broad daylight,
right in front of the students.
He could've been there.
My son, he went there for a bit.
He could've been there.
Could've caught a bullet.
First time in my life
I'm glad the religious fool
left with everyone else.
It won't take me long
to identify a suspect.
Oh, the suspect's been
identified and eliminated.
The Memory of Falsehood's safe,
so there's that.
Thing is, it doesn't, um,
have a Keeper anymore.
Mr. President.
Mr. McCarthy.
Elizeus.
I've already briefed
Agent Carrier.
What's next?
We need to determine
if this was a lone wolf
or there's a
whole pack behind him,
and I think Agent
Carrier runs point on this.
Can we have the room?
How is Noor?
Great.
And your sister, are you
following her campaign?
I see.
I think it's wise for you not to
be a part of this investigation.
Mr. President,
I am clearly better equipped
than anyone to handle this.
This is the second time
that something
like this has happened.
Digging into this case
is not gonna tell you
what happened to your mother.
So yes, I think it's best
if you sit this one out.
- Mr. President--
- I'll see your chief now.
Thank you, Agent Carrier.
The Memory of Falsehood
shattered everyone's faith,
and neither Richard David
nor his predecessor
have done anything about it.
And with all the respect
I owe Keeper Morrison,
this man knows the truth.
He knows what's
in the Memory of Falsehood,
yet chooses to
keep it away from us.
And they will
say he is only doing
what he was appointed to do,
but he always had a choice.
Why would he keep it
away from us?
If the Memory of
Falsehood showed anything
that proved him right,
why would an atheist
like Keeper Morrison
not want to let
the world know that?
I'll tell you why.
Because it didn't
align with his beliefs,
and Richard David knows that.
They both chose to hide it
from us.
And if that's the case,
then they've lied to you, to us.
Has Richard David
forgotten the first sin?
Have we?
I was still a teenager
when he made my mother
his Keeper.
Ever since, she never,
ever stopped warning me
about the first sin.
Said whoever told
a lie should be ashamed,
punished.
Well, they will.
I will fight that battle for us,
no matter what he
does to keep it from you.
I make you this promise.
Elect me,
and every single one of you
will see the
Memory of Falsehood
the day I get into office.
No more hiding.
And it was during a campaign
appearance earlier today
that presidential
candidate Marie Carrier
pledged to publicly release
the Memory of Falsehood.
This move is unprecedented and--
It shall not be made manifest.
It is expected to
sway millions of voters.
Mm-mm.
Particularly in the nation's
remaining religious states.
It shall not be known.
So its impact is likely
to resonate far beyond
Hey.
How was your day?
Is this from today?
Cedric Sanderson.
"The first man before the many".
Guy who got sent to
Mars and never come back.
Don't-- don't you
learn this in school?
Not that.
This is a collector that
we arrested yesterday.
He said that he knew
your grandma,
or he said something like
that before we wiped him.
Did you know that most people
on their deathbeds
make a big confession,
mostly because
they feel guilty?
Some even admit to
killing people, you know?
What, you-- what,
you learn this in school today?
No, this.
I'd say this collector dude
should be
on the list of suspects.
He said he met your grandma,
not that he killed her.
- Well, genius.
- Oh, here we go.
Most people on their deathbeds--
He wasn't on his deathbed.
Kinda was.
I mean, he just says out
of nowhere he knew her,
and then he says this?
Maybe he was
too afraid to tell you,
and this is his way of
saying that he did it.
He wanted to come clean.
I mean, I would be afraid
of the anger of God
if I knew it was
the end for me soon.
Are you afraid of
the anger of God now?
I would be.
Maybe he knew
you'd find out someday,
so may as well say sorry now.
I knew your mother.
The Memory of Falsehood
shattered everyone's faith,
and neither Richard David
nor his predecessor
have done anything about it.
And with all the respect I owe
Keeper Morrison, this man...
Gotta give it to your sister.
She makes exciting promises.
You gonna vote for her?
I don't vote.
For ruining the faith
of our people.
For committing
the worst sin of all.
That body
is being taken to the morgue
right now as we speak,
ready for investigation.
What do you think happens
if she releases it?
If she's right?
All it would take a good agent
is just a couple minutes
to look inside that guy's mind,
and trace back,
and find someone
who could have ordered
a hit on Keeper Morrison.
- Sure.
- That's all it would take.
- A couple of minutes.
- Yeah, yeah, I'm with you.
But what I meant was
what happens to people
like you and me?
I think we'll be fine.
Hmm.
You think your
daughter will be fine, too?
If there's a link between
the guy who got Morrison
and anyone worth our time,
it should've been us.
So you're not on the case, huh?
Now, if someone were
to get into the morgue
and do their own investigation
without being assigned
a warrant,
they'd be court-martialed.
I guess all they'd have to
do is, uh, not get caught.
Ticker implant?
Oh, yeah.
There's a ticker implant.
Direct extraction's
off the table.
I'll dive in.
I'll only need 30 seconds.
Get the extractor.
Now it usually takes 20 seconds
for the receptor to register,
- not 30.
- I got it.
Keep your eyes down.
Let's go.
1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 6, 7.
Eli, what are you doing here?
I was just nearby,
and I, uh, wanted to see
if you were feeling better.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Coffee?
You know, it's funny.
You've, uh,
you've never been here before.
No. I, uh,
I looked up your--
your address in your file.
Huh.
You know, I-- I got a lead
on the, uh,
on the Morrison case,
and I...
just wanted to run a few
things by you.
Don't make me look inside
your head.
You Verity Alliance?
Phew.
Okay, only a couple things
can happen now.
One, I look inside your head,
your ticker goes off, you die.
Or two, I let you go,
we find you,
and we get that
ticker out of you.
Oh, you think you got it all
figured out, huh?
Eli fucking Carrier, God's gift
to the Department of Memory.
You think they send us on stings
'cause that's just our job?
You think we wipe people
like that collector guy
because we give a shit
about the black market?
Wake up, Eli!
Okay, Sid.
I gotta take you in.
We can talk about this.
You don't got a fucking clue.
You just go to work every day.
You got no idea why
they're sending us out there.
- Sid.
- We,
we are the only ones
who know the truth.
Leo, I found something.
Oh, you did, did you?
'Cause we can't use it.
It was Verity Alliance.
They're the ones who ordered
the Morrison assassination.
- I'm sure.
- Ticker blown.
Completely useless.
Dead end.
Was it self-defense?
No, it wasn't.
Was it self-defense?
Yes, sir.
Good.
I'm taking you off the force
till we find you a way
out of this.
No, you can't take me off
the force now.
- I can.
- No, you can't, Leo.
I need access.
You cannot take me off right
now, not with what I got.
I can and I will.
It's that or you will see
the four walls of a cell.
You can go and you can leave it
on the desk.
Memory file access request.
I don't have my badge on me.
Chief McCarthy just sent me
directly here.
Open up!
Hey, fellas.
How's it going?
- What's good?
- See the manifest?
Thanks.
Hot out, huh?
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.
Just wanna take one last
look at, uh, Kowalski.
- Open up.
- That's not standard procedure--
Only take a minute.
Look at me.
Look-- look at me.
July 5th, 2079. Ring a bell?
Answer the question.
July 5th, 2079.
What about it?
Your seller, she wanted it,
I need to see it.
No, no.
You don't need to see it,
you want to.
Show it to me.
Why don't you look
for it yourself?
They're encoded,
you know I can't find it.
Show me where
it is in your head,
and I'll let you
keep your memories.
Okay.
Where'd you get this?
Answer me!
Your mother gave it to me.
She wanted me to know.
Know what?
That she wasn't gonna make it
to see another day,
not after that.
She saw what she saw.
And I sure as hell know
it wasn't fruit on a tree.
I know what she wanted.
What did she want?
The truth.
For everyone.
Thank you, gentlemen.
Where is this from?
Is this a real memory?
No apparent window
or any source of natural light.
Hmm, the ceiling's too high
to be a basement,
but that could be a distortion,
but, uh,
no, I've never seen this place.
Double check.
I don't need to.
You know this person.
Just tell me if this is
a real memory or not.
Hard to say.
That's not good enough.
This isn't a native memory.
It's your copy of this guy's
copy of the original.
And God knows if the one that
he has at home is the original.
It is.
Okay.
Well, um,
as far as I can tell,
yeah, looks legitimate.
But I-- I don't wanna give you
a false positive.
Whose is it?
My mother's.
We need to talk.
Do you have a
secure place we can meet?
You wanted somewhere secure.
There's no video cameras.
There's no microphones.
The only proof of this meeting
will be in our memory records.
Your mother was going
to broadcast it, Elizeus.
She saw it.
She knew everything about it,
and she thought
it was a good idea
to show it to people.
She showed it to me.
She wasn't allowed to,
but she did.
And now I know.
No one should see this.
No one can fathom
what's in here.
But I need you to try.
No.
I thought you wanted the truth.
It's the only way
to keep this safe.
And then what?
You get rid of me just like
you got rid of my mother?
Just like you got rid
of Morrison?
You really believe I wanted
to watch my sister die?
Do you believe that
you wouldn't do the same--
I'd have done
what my mother wanted.
I'd have told the truth.
And unraveled the very
fabric of humanity?
You'll change your mind
when you see what's in this.
Put this in the hands of society
and the only thing left
for you to do is to watch
that society collapse.
And that's what your mother
was going to do.
Everywhere,
all across the planet,
people would have lost hope.
Millions of people would
have taken their own lives.
One big descent into chaos,
right back to the Stone Ages,
and you wonder why I did it.
And now Marie wants to take it
and publicly display it.
There's no Garden of Eden here,
Elizeus.
I have to take you in.
You just confessed.
It's all up here.
29th Amendment will have
Marie automatically elected.
I know you can't
forgive me for what I did,
but will you be able
to forgive yourself
if something
happens to your sister?
She releases this,
death sentence.
Good morning, America.
I hope you're all doing well
on this historic election day.
The polls will open
any moment now,
and we urge you all
to get out there and vote.
And just as a reminder,
be safe out there, everyone.
God bless.
Today?
Five years without
a single word from you,
and you choose to come
and see me on election day.
What do you need?
I need you to drop out
of the election.
Why the sudden
interest in my affairs?
It's not safe.
Me being president is not safe?
Releasing the
Memory of Falsehood.
Five times.
I know you don't really care
that much about what we do,
but that's how many times
I've tried to have a bill voted
to make this memory public,
and it failed every time.
I was ridiculed by my peers
every time.
Today, I am on the edge
of finally making things right,
and you believe
that I'm just
gonna give it all away?
Deprive people of
what they want
because you asked me to?
I don't want you to do something
that you're going to regret.
I just need you...
I'm begging you to just--
just listen to me.
How would you know?
How would you know
it's not safe?
- Marie.
- It's senator.
Soon to be president,
for that matter.
Memory of Falsehood.
What about it?
What if it's not
what you want it to be, Marie?
It will be exactly
what I want it to be.
You don't know that.
Have faith, Eli.
Okay.
And there you have it.
The candidates have met,
a firm handshake exchanged.
And now the fate
of this election rests solely
in the hands of the people.
For President David,
this could very well
be the final chapter
of his time in power.
We are also keeping a close
eye on what is happening beyond
the polling stations.
Citizens online have
called out for a protest.
A large number of voters
have expressed a desire
to march through
the city streets
to show their disapproval
of Richard David's run
as president of
the United States.
Since Marie Carrier
announced her candidacy--
Noor.
We noticed an increase
in the public's criticism over--
Noor.
David's decisions about
his latest term,
calling both the president
and the late Keeper
Francis Morrison's
reluctance to release The
Memory of Falsehood a disgrace.
The protest is scheduled
to begin closer to the
announcement
of our new president today.
And while it is still early
to call the situation
anything other than a march,
authorities are urging
the public to remain calm.
Officials advise
residents to remain indoors
while they work
to restore order.
And we will bring you the latest
update as they come in.
Despite what the
projections are telling us,
we cannot yet say for
certain that Marie Carrier
will win this race.
But if she does, it will
only be a matter of time
before she delivers The Memory
of Falsehood to the public.
Her win will be the most pivotal
moment in recent history.
But the question remains,
can we be certain
of a peaceful transition
of The Memory of Falsehood
from President David
to Marie Carrier upon her win?
And it looks like
we have some breaking news.
We are now officially
projecting the winner
of this historical
presidential race.
She won!
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
once said,
"The greater
our knowledge increases,
the more our ignorance
unfolds."
I disagree.
I would like to offer you
another quote instead.
"For everything that was written
in the past was written
to teach us
so that through endurance
taught in the scriptures and
the encouragement they provide,
we might find hope."
Romans 15:4.
Richard David and his Keeper
withheld this memory from you.
Hid it from you,
instead of gifting you
with the warm knowledge that
your lives are not meaningless.
Our nation has spent the past
25 years losing hope.
Yet we always manage
to survive the worst.
And among the many
lessons history has taught us,
one of them is
that history itself
can sometimes
be horribly wrong.
Mr. President, the protesters,
they're-- they're
marching down onto 2nd Avenue.
They're making
their way here, sir.
We were taught ideas yesterday
that we're forced
to unlearn today.
And what we learn today
will become the very things
we need to forget tomorrow.
But there is one thing
we should never unlearn:
our ability to find hope
in the darkest of moments.
A hope that something, someone,
somewhere will
bring us the answers we need.
And I have
never been more hopeful.
They're coming for you.
There's no need for you
to stay today.
Noor, I need you to go home.
What? But, Dad!
I need you to go home,
right now.
- Where are you going?
- Noor, now!
The "Memory of Falsehood"
and the "Day of Falsehood"
are terms that bring pain,
suffering, and shame.
They are terms that
were coined by pessimists,
and this memory
deserves better than that.
I want today,
November 15th, 2088,
to be marked in history
as the Day of Origins!
May God bless you.
And God bless
the United States of America!
Is it true?
If anybody finds out
that she lied...
You're gonna do something?
Make sure nobody suspects her.
I don't see how I could do that.
You're gonna work something out.
Of all the things
I envisioned her doing,
I never could have
imagined she'd do that.
Your mother wanted
to find them, our creators.
It was her idea to send
Sanderson to look for them.
Making the public believe
that he was going to Mars,
that was mine.
But if there was
even a thinnest possibility
that there was an
all-loving God behind this,
who created them before
they created us...
But it didn't matter
to your mother.
Everything lost all meaning.
Maybe she was right in the end.
Maybe telling the
truth is better than
what your sister
is doing right now.
She thinks she's following
in her mother's path,
but in reality, it's you.
Please take it.
One person must always
know what's in there.
Our survival depends on it.
And don't let anything happen
to this, Elizeus.
The Keeper doesn't just protect
mankind from this memory,
they protect
this memory from mankind.
You should go.
Leave your weapon.
I worked something out.
Elizeus.
If it's destroyed,
they will come.
President-elect Marie Carrier
secures an--
Noor.
Overwhelming 84%
of the popular vote,
managing to flip
key swing states like
Pennsylvania and Illinois.
And unlike any other election--
Noor.
Reporting on
this year's vote count
feels almost
trivial considering--
Excuse me a minute.
...our new president's release
of the Memory of Origins.
More than 20 years since
the Day of Falsehood,
the world has finally
been given the chance--
Hard to celebrate.
With all this.
Sometimes the best thing
to do to celebrate
is to simply say nothing at all.
Take in the moment.
Now that this is out there,
what happens to people
like me?
Like your daughter?
Nothing happens.
Do you really think
I'd do anything to people
who don't convert?
Marie.
Maybe silence can fix that, too.
Tariq.
We need to talk.
Uh, yeah, sure.
Noor, why don't you go inside?
I'll be there in a minute.
You okay?
I need to know
that I could trust you.
I've been looking
into something.
D-O-M doesn't know.
Look, man.
I, um,
I got somewhere I gotta be.
No, no.
This is important.
Now, I-- I know you know
what I'm talking about.
I don't.
I saw you.
Election day,
I-- I saw you looking at it.
I-- I know someone
and she can help us.
She's a senator.
We-- we-- we can--
we can build a case and--
I don't know what
you're talking about, Tariq.
And I don't wanna know.
Why don't you believe me?
We'll talk about it tomorrow, okay?
Just-- just get some sleep.
And you might not
be able to tell,
but I was a very
popular girl back then.
A militant.
A very popular militant,
thank you very much.
So, hitting a bulldog
with your car--
It was a bull terrier,
not a bulldog.
Well, hitting a bull anything
with your car
is a reputation killer,
and if your grandma
found out what I did,
I knew I'd have to
say goodbye to that school.
Of course, at this point,
the entire neighborhood
knew about Mrs. Matthews'
limping dog, and--
Was she okay?
Mrs. Matthews?
- The dog.
- She was fine.
They were both fine.
And your dad over here tells me,
"Mom needs to know.
We can't lie to her," and so on.
So on.
Mama's boy.
Do you have any idea
how many of his chores
I had to do for him to not
say anything to your grandma?
Months, and months,
and months of chores.
Did she ever find out?
I'm sure she knew deep down,
but she never said anything.
She probably knew how important
that school was to me.
She knew I wanted to
follow her path, so--
It was me.
The neighbors saw our car
hit the dog,
and they
told Mom, and, uh,
and I said that it was me
behind the wheel.
You stayed home all summer.
I made you do my chores.
Why did you do it?
I don't know. I...
Like you said, that school
meant a lot to you,
and look where it got you.
Hmm.
What do you wanna do
when you grow up?
Hmm?
Mm...
I wanna be like you.
I think we should go.
I-- I don't wanna go now.
You don't have to go now.
She doesn't have to go now.
She can stay the night.
I'll have someone drive her home
in the morning.
Yeah?
Please?
All right.
Thank you for dinner.
Thank you for coming.
See you, sweetie.
Cheers.
Did you find what
you were looking for?
Not sure what you mean.
You're not a very good liar,
so I'll ask again.
Did you find
what you were looking for?
I don't know.
Are you sure you want to?
Want to?
To know.
We've been in touch
with Mr. Hassan
for some time now.
He told us to come find you
if anything should
happen to him.
Do you know something
that we should, Chief Carrier?
How long you been following me?
Try again.
Why are you following me?
We share a common interest.
What common interest?
The truth.
No one should see this.
No one can fathom
what's in here.
But I need you to try.
So come on,
what are we doing here?
You wanna give me my job back?
I've retired.
I think Hassan was murdered.
The guy who
was stabbed 22 times,
you think that
might've been a murder?
You're definitely
onto something.
It wasn't a mugging.
Someone wanted him dead
for another reason.
I need your expertise, Leo.
Memory of Origins.
Need a little more
context there.
Tariq was murdered
because he could determine
that the Memory
of Origins was forged.
And I can prove it.
I have official statements,
testimonies, actual evidence.
Where'd you get them from?
His apartment.
Someone's reached out to me,
Leo, this woman on
the other side of the aisle.
And she wants to vote on a bill
to get rid of the president's
control over memory tech,
and Tariq was in touch with her
to give his side of the story.
You sure about this?
David gave me
something before he died,
the real Memory of Falsehood.
What's the real Memory
of Falsehood?
Real memories have defects
that you can't find in
manufactured memories.
We can do something.
This woman,
we can take this to her.
We can talk to her.
Testify?
Have you thought about
what happens to the world
if this gets out?
Have you even thought
this through?
I'm gonna tell you what happens,
is every nonbeliever thinks
they're right
over everybody else.
That's it.
Is that what you want?
The most despicable
deception in history
as in the palm
of your fucking hand.
- Please, please.
- Take a walk.
Despicable?
Have you seen the world lately?
It's good.
Not long ago,
everything was dark.
It was empty.
It was dead.
Everyone's back.
Everyone's at peace.
Everyone believes in something.
And they're wrong.
So what if they are?
What, you wanna ruin it all?
For what?
For the truth.
Fuck your truth.
Now, this is your battle.
This isn't ours.
This is not mine.
My son, he won't let me see him
yet, but he is back.
And if he leaves this country
'cause of your bullshit,
I swear to fucking Christ,
Carrier--
You just gonna sit there?
Ominously.
I don't even remember this.
Did she talk to you?
She told me.
And?
She's your daughter, Eli.
I have an entire
nation to take care of.
If I also have to look after
other people's children--
She's not other
people's children.
She's your niece.
She gave that kid a black eye,
broke his tooth, Marie.
Her and her friends,
they attacked him,
all because
he wasn't a believer.
She's a 16-year-old kid.
She's going to protests.
She's getting involved
politically.
She's doing the exact same shit
that you were
doing when you were her age.
I never called for violence
against anyone
who doesn't believe.
Bullshit.
Fucking talk to me, Marie.
You know,
on election day, you and I,
we stood in that room, together.
And you asked me to be quiet.
I didn't ask you for anything.
You asked me to keep
my mouth shut, and if I did,
then I wouldn't have to worry
about what happens to her,
your niece.
And it's a promise I have kept.
You only made these promises
so you could keep
me on your side.
That's politics.
I imagine you know what this is.
Why are you here?
To give you a chance
to explain yourself.
I did what was best
for everyone.
David told me the same thing.
I didn't believe him either.
Can you imagine a world
where everyone believed
that this is where we really
come from,
that
everything is meaningless?
Because with this,
that's what would happen.
Faith is what keeps
a society standing and growing.
Take that away, and all
you have are rotten roots.
I'm not leaving here
until I hear the truth.
Are you saying
this is what Mom wanted?
Is a world without hope
really what you want?
You know I'm right.
You must know I'm right.
How many things
have you done wrong, Eli?
How many things
have I overlooked?
The truth, Marie!
That's what she wanted.
She wanted to unite people.
And look what I have done.
Some people have been
in touch with me, Marie.
A Democratic committee.
What have you told them?
Nothing yet.
I have a hearing tomorrow.
You don't have to do this.
I can't lie.
You don't have to lie.
You don't have to be burdened
by this anymore.
It is eating you alive.
Let me take it away from you.
This is precisely why
a committee like this exists,
because you're the kinda person
that would even
consider extraction.
Don't lie to yourself.
I know you think you're
doing the right thing.
I know you think
it's what should be done.
She always made
you feel so special,
like no one
could ever lie to you.
And now you're just not
that special anymore.
I am.
If you do this, you will die.
I guarantee it.
None of what you're doing
is what Mom wanted.
She wanted to unite people,
but not with a lie like this.
This meant that she was
wrong about everything,
that her faith meant nothing.
But she was still gonna do it.
That's why he killed her.
You had her all wrong.
Thanks, Dad.
Noor?
I, um, I got you something.
It was your grandmother's.
It's been in our family
a long, long time.
Why are you giving it to me?
I gotta go away,
just a couple days.
Hey, hey.
I'll tell you when I get back.
I miss my dad.
The following hearing
will be documented through
eye-memory records.
Both our recollections
of today's meeting
could be used
in a court of law.
Do you consent?
Yes, sir.
State your name and occupation
for the record.
Elizeus Carrier,
Chief of Department of Memory.
Do you swear that the evidence
you're about to give
is the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing
but the truth, so help you God?
I swear.
Let us point out for the
record that you have
not been ordered
to come testify today.
You are here by your own accord.
Is this information correct?
Yes, sir.
Mr. Carrier, as the appointed
Chief of Department of Memory,
as well as someone directly
close to the president
of the United States,
do you have knowledge of
President Marie Carrier using
memory extraction technology
in ways that do not
conform to the law,
be it for personal gain
or political strategy?
And if so, please specify
which way the
technology has been misused.
I began investigating
President Carrier
on December 11th.
My investigation
was done personally
and wasn't the result
of an official case
that the Department of Memory.
It was completely off the books.
I just had, um, suspicions
that something wasn't right,
that the president had been
using memory technology
to her advantage
during the election,
maybe afterwards,
that she had lied to the public
about the things she had done
to get to where she is now.
My investigation
was inconclusive.
I searched everywhere,
and nothing that I found
would suggest illegal activity
on behalf of the president.
She was completely transparent
with the public,
and with myself.
Mr. Carrier, it's important
that you don't let
your personal relationship
with the president--
It wouldn't matter
that she was my sister.
No one person should
have the power to deceive
an entire nation,
an entire planet.
My relationship with her
would never be enough to
stop me from exposing her
if she had lied.
She's not.
I was wrong.
Leo, I need a favor.
Pick Noor up from school,
take her home,
get her to pack a bag.
I'll send the location.
6:00 p.m.
Call it off!
No!
I come before you today
not only as the president
of the United States,
but as a sister and an aunt
deeply concerned for her family.
My brother,
Chief of the Department
of Memory,
Elizeus Carrier,
has been missing
for five days now.
Chief Carrier is a
dedicated public servant.
I miss my brother.
His daughter Noor
and I want him back.
We have assigned our
best law enforcement
and intelligence services
to find him.
If anyone has any--
any information that could
help us in finding my brother,
I ask you to come
forward immediately.
I'd like to thank
the press for their
respect during
this difficult time,
and I will not take any further
questions on the matter.
Thank you.
Dad, if you see this,
if you see this please just
let us know that you're okay.
I just wanna know
that you're okay.
If you felt like you
had to leave, that's fine.
I...
I just-- I wanna make sure
nothing happened to you.
So, please Dad, if--
if you can,
just send us a sign.
When is he coming back?
I don't know.
Send her in.
Madam President.
What can I help you with,
Senator?
I would like you to accept
an apology.
I wanted to come
and personally apologize
about the
creation of our committee.
Why today?
Mr. Carrier,
he came to testify,
but in the end...
We tried contacting him
since his first hearing.
We haven't had any luck.
Is everything okay?
Your guess is as good as mine.
He didn't leave a note,
just a daughter.
Are you still searching for him?
In every way I can.
Testifying can be daunting.
Perhaps he left because
he was worried about the
repercussions.
There wouldn't have
been repercussions.
I mean legal repercussions.
From us.
Let him know that
we still want to talk to him,
if you hear from him.
Madam President.
Is it true?
Did you really wanna
show this to the world?
Didn't think so.
So what do you know about him?
He went to Mars, right?
Not quite.
He was sent to Mars.
We don't think he
actually made it there.
What happened?
We don't know.
We lost contact with his ship
shortly after he left.
Madam President,
they're ready for you.
How does he look?
The same as when he left Earth.
As in exactly the same.
We have a dossier for you.
I know what he looked like.
My mother knew him.