The Protos Experiment (2025) Movie Script
(machine whining)
(rapid sonic pulses)
(rapid sonic pulses)
(suspenseful music)
(rapid sonic pulses)
(suspenseful music)
(John groaning)
What the.
(suspenseful music)
What the hell is this?
(blinder electronic pulse)
Shit.
(dramatic music)
(blinder electronic pulse)
(footsteps thudding)
Wait, stop, stop, stop, ah.
Wait. Hey. Hey, listen.
We're chained.
Stop.
Wait.
Stop.
You're gonna break my neck.
(blinder electronic pulse)
Hey.
(electronic sonic pulse)
Hey.
(electronic sonic pulse)
Wait, wait.
(John screaming)
Wait, stop.
(dramatic music)
(John groaning)
What the fuck.
Move.
Fuck off.
Get out.
This is my space.
(Lizzie's distorted
voice) This is my space.
(distorted) You're a dead man.
(distorted) Come here. Here.
(distorted) No.
(distorted) No.
(dramatic music)
(distorted) No.
(blinder electronic pulse)
(pro to grunting)
(distorted) No.
No. No.
(Lizzie choking)
No.
(bone snapping)
(dramatic music)
(blinder electronic pulse)
(pro to deep breathing)
[Kyra] It's no good.
You're not gonna break it.
What's going on here?
I don't know.
I woke up trapped like you.
(dramatic music)
Where are we?
No idea.
Do you have a phone?
No.
How'd we get here?
The last thing I remember,
I was running with my dog.
Then I woke up here
chained to this thing.
What about you?
Playing with my cat.
You didn't see anyone bring me in?
No.
When I woke up, you were
already over there, asleep.
(dramatic music)
I'm John.
Kyra.
[John] Kyra.
Did he kill that girl over there?
Looks like it.
His clothes.
You think he escaped from an insane asylum?
He's crazy all right.
He acts like he doesn't
even know he's chained to me.
What's that thing on his head?
[Nev] Kill him.
[Nev] Over here.
[Nev] Hey.
He needs to kill him before
sleeping beauty wakes up.
[Kyra] Who are you?
Nev.
Kill him.
I'd do it if I could.
How'd you get in here?
Last thing I remember I was
delivering pizzas on my bike
and I pulled over to take
a piss in some bushes
and then wham I woke up here.
Someone hit you?
No, I don't know.
I don't remember.
It doesn't matter, I'm trapped here now.
You need to kill the big
guy before he kills us.
(dramatic music)
No, we just gotta get outta here.
That's why you need to kill him.
The chain, choke him with your chain.
Stick your fingers in his eyes.
Right in the socket.
Blind him.
Jump on his throat.
Just shut up, all right.
I'm trying to think.
He's gonna kill us all.
It's gonna be your fault.
(dramatic music)
[Kyra] Be careful, John.
(chains clanking)
(suspenseful music)
(blinder electronic pulse)
(dramatic music)
I found a soldering iron.
Kill that bastard.
(dramatic music)
Oh no.
Pull him back, pull
him back, pull him back.
[John] I'm trying.
[Nev] No, no, no. You
don't want to do that.
Pull, pull, pull him back.
(blinder electronic pulse)
(blinder electronic pulse)
(chain clanking)
(dramatic music)
Shit.
No, no.
Don't hurt her.
Stop him.
(dramatic music)
(pro to grunting)
(blinder electronic pulse)
(pro to heavy breathing)
(blinder electronic pulse)
No.
(dramatic music)
I can't stop him.
(Kyra's distorted voice) Damn it.
(Kyra screaming)
Let me go.
I'm trying to find the blue light.
Get off of me.
(Kyra screaming)
Ah, it's not working.
John, get the soldering iron,
down there on the floor.
Stab him.
(dramatic music)
(Kyra screaming)
(Kyra screaming)
(dramatic music)
Got it.
Stab him.
(Kyra screaming)
(dramatic music)
Do it John, or we're both dead.
(John groaning)
John.
(dramatic music)
(blinder electronic pulse)
(John choking)
(dramatic music)
(electronic screech)
(pro to choking)
(dramatic music)
(pro to coughing)
(suspenseful music)
(Proto's rasping breaths)
(alarm blaring)
(alarm blaring)
(rapid sonic pulses)
(water dripping)
(Kyra groaning)
(suspenseful music)
(water pattering)
Hello.
Anyone here?
(water pattering)
(suspenseful music)
Hello.
(suspenseful music)
Can anyone hear me?
(footsteps crunching)
(Kyra panting)
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
(water pattering)
(faint singing)
Who's there?
(faint singing)
Hello.
(faint singing)
(faint singing stops)
(water pattering)
(suspenseful music)
(Kyra gasping)
(suspenseful music)
Don't touch her.
Don't touch my kitty.
You hurt my kitty.
I didn't.
I'm just trying to find my way out of here.
(suspenseful music)
How'd you get in here?
(cat purring)
(motor whirring)
(robot cat meowing)
I need to feed Lily.
No. Wait.
Where are you going?
Does this lead out?
[Amber] No.
[Kyra] Do you know a way out of here?
There's no way out.
Can you at least tell me your name?
[Amber] Amber.
[Kyra] Amber?
(suspenseful music)
Bread, forks, spoons.
No knives though.
Not a single knife.
You want a sandwich, Lily?
PBJ.
(motor whirring)
(robot cat purring)
"Remember you know John."
Did you put that there?
No.
Do you know a John?
No.
You?
I.
I don't know.
(metal clanking)
Did you hear that?
(metal clanking)
What is that?
(suspenseful music)
(water pattering)
(suspenseful music)
Is that a dagger?
No.
It is just a.
What?
I don't know.
I've seen it somewhere before.
When?
I don't know.
(suspenseful music)
(water pattering)
I think some guy, he held it.
John.
I think it was John.
Why can't I remember?
How did you end up here?
I woke up here, I was just here.
What do you remember before that?
Think.
Last thing I remember
is standing in a
beautiful field of flowers.
(suspenseful music)
(water pattering)
Flowers.
(suspenseful music)
Flowers are for funerals.
(suspenseful music)
(water pattering)
Those could garnish many, many funerals.
(water pattering)
Two caskets two by two
Equals none
(suspenseful music)
Do you remember
anything else before that?
I'm not sure.
I mean, it's all foggy.
But I can remember lots of things,
it's just all glitchy.
Yeah, same here.
It's like it's fragmented.
Like I know I had a dog.
Her name was Freedom.
She was born on the 4th of July.
(metal clanking)
(dramatic music)
(water pattering)
(metal clanking)
(suspenseful music)
(footsteps thudding)
(dramatic music)
I lied, there was one knife.
I'm not gonna let you stab Lily.
Stop.
(both groaning)
Let me.
Drop it.
(Amber screaming)
(dramatic music)
I'll break her neck.
Don't hurt Lily.
Why did you attack me?
You were gonna stab us.
I wasn't gonna stab anyone.
Give me Lily.
You give me the knife.
I'll put it away.
No.
(dramatic music)
Give me Lily.
(dramatic music)
Oh God.
Amber, hold on.
(dramatic music)
(water pattering)
What's happening?
(dramatic music)
The blue light.
(Kyra groaning)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra groaning)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra groaning)
(keyboard clacking)
[Overseer] It's a shame,
it never fully succeeded with him.
[Experimenter] We
wouldn't be where we are now
without what we learned
from him and the others.
[Overseer] All right,
let's reset, start again.
(dramatic music)
(Kyra groaning)
[Experimenter] She has
introduced a new variable.
[Overseer] "Know John."
How could she remember John?
I don't know, but it will be enlightening
to see its effect.
(machine whining)
No please.
I want to remember.
(machine whining)
(rapid sonic pulses)
Get out.
Get out.
Both of you out.
Get the hell away from me.
Out.
(dramatic music)
(Maggie screaming)
Oh shit.
(Maggie screaming)
(dramatic music)
[Kyra] What the hell was that?
Them.
They're out there.
Whatever you do, stay in the light.
Do not leave the light.
Do you understand?
[Tanner] Come on out.
Show yourselves.
They're all around us.
We can fight 'em.
Yeah, we'll gang up.
We'll march out there.
You're an idiot.
I know, I have been here the longest.
I'm the real old timer.
I am the queen of the light pool.
[John] Where are we? How did we get here?
[Rosa] No one knows.
No one knows how we got here.
[Nev] No.
A light suddenly appears,
and folks are there,
just like you two.
Just stay in the light and stay alive.
(Rosa laughing)
We're trapped prisoners.
Don't you understand?
Just stay in the middle.
(dramatic music)
Your arm.
What happened?
[Nev] We're trapped prisoners.
I think I did it.
I'm John.
[Nev] Just stay in the middle.
I think we've met before.
When?
- [Nev] Don't push.
- Before.
There has to be a before all this.
This must be to remember.
We have to remember.
Why, why don't we?
I don't know.
[Rosa] Stand in the middle of the light.
It must be part of what's happening here.
They're messing with us.
A sick game?
Maybe it's some kind of test.
Lab rats.
Do you remember doing
something like this before?
I remember not remembering.
Like, like not remembering
many times before, with you.
Yeah, with me.
I feel that.
But you don't remember
how many times we've met.
Just like we don't
remember how we got here.
Or how many times we've done this before.
(suspenseful music)
"Black lite."
What does that mean?
I don't know.
(baby crying)
(baby crying)
(suspenseful music)
(Kyra gasping)
(chain retracting)
(dramatic music)
Oh, they're moving again.
Come on.
Come on.
(Tanner's distorted voice) Come on.
(distorted) Hey, watch
it. I'll throw you out.
(yelling) Get back.
I'll burn it down.
I'll burn it all down.
You're not my family,
you can't just take me in.
(robot cat meowing)
You don't know me.
You can't feel my pain.
You are fucking crazy.
(both groaning)
Please stop, please stop, please stop.
Look, look, the light, it's
changing, it's getting smaller.
[Rosa] Get in tight to the center,
as close to each other as you can.
Hold on to each other.
(Amber moaning)
[Kyra] That's it.
Keep to the middle.
(dramatic music)
Come on.
Come on.
(Amber groaning)
(dramatic music)
(all distorted groaning)
(all groaning)
[Tanner] Come on. Come on.
(Amber screaming)
No, no.
[John] Come on, come on.
- [John] Come on, come on.
- [Kyra] Come to us. Come on.
[Kyra] You can make it.
(John's Distorted
voice) Come on, come on.
[Kyra] You can make it.
(Kyra screaming)
Let, let, let me in.
- You're pulling me out.
- Let me in.
(Rosa's distorted voice)
Let me in, into the light.
(Rosa screaming)
(Rosa screaming fades away to silence)
What did you do?
Why?
(robot cat purring)
For Lily.
(suspenseful music)
Lily.
(robot cat purring)
Hello forever.
(Amber screaming)
(dramatic music)
(trap door shutting)
(robot cat meowing)
(suspenseful music)
(chains rattling)
That's it.
Take this piece of shit.
(dramatic music)
No, no.
(dramatic music)
Take him.
Stop, stop it.
Leave him alone.
This is my light.
(dramatic music)
Mine.
(Tanner grunting)
No. No.
(Tanner's distorted screams)
(Tanner screaming)
(dramatic music)
(suspenseful music)
(footsteps thudding)
(Tanner screaming)
Help me.
(dramatic music)
(chains rattling)
(dramatic music)
[John] Those things, ah.
Ugh.
[Kyra] There's something
about them, right?
The chains, the things
on their heads, the lights.
I swear I've seen them somewhere before,
but I don't know.
Why can't you remember?
Why can't I remember anything?
But we remember our pasts
before we got trapped here.
Do we?
All my memories are hazy.
I vaguely recall what I was doing before.
What do you really remember?
Huh?
Yeah, up here, it's like flashes of things,
but what's in the gaps?
Yeah.
Yeah, you're right.
I can only remember what pops into my head,
but nothing I actually try to remember.
It's like huge chunks of
my past are just missing.
What's happening to you, to me?
They're suppressing our memories.
Slowly scrubbing them.
John, if we don't get out of here,
we might not remember who we even are.
That's it, you were right.
We're lab rats.
My light's not shrinking anymore.
It's still the same.
(suspenseful music)
(chains rattling)
He wore chains.
The big guy with chains.
He's the one who hit me.
You were there, you as well.
[Nev] You guys don't remember.
Think.
I don't remember you.
(chains rattling)
The soldering iron, I threw it to you.
Soldering iron.
[Nev] Yeah.
You went completely crazy.
You stabbed a guy to death.
You ripped him apart like a pinata.
You don't remember me?
I'm Nev.
(Kyra gasps)
Our circle's getting smaller.
(dramatic music)
Get in the middle.
Whatever you do, don't
let the darkness touch you.
(chains rattling)
It's no good.
- [John] Turn around.
- [Nev] Think of something.
You're both aren't gonna fit in there.
One of you has gotta take the whole light
or you're both dead.
One of you is gonna have
to shove the other one out.
You don't have a choice.
Do it or you're gonna die.
(dramatic music)
You'd both rather die?
Just push her out.
Whatever happens,
we stick together.
Whatever happens.
(Proto screaming)
(chains retracting)
(chains retracting)
(chains retracting stops)
(chains retracting)
(chains retracting stops)
(suspenseful music)
[John] They took 'em away.
They?
They, them, whoever's doing this.
But why?
Maybe it's over.
We passed the test.
Test?
Oh, it's a test.
(suspenseful music)
What?
(alarm blaring)
The light.
(alarm blaring)
Block, block light.
- What?
- Don't look at the light.
Okay. Just trust me.
(alarm blaring)
Please John, whatever
you do, don't open your eyes.
(alarm blaring)
Don't look. Please, John.
Whatever you do, don't look at the light
(alarm horn)
[John] What's happening?
I don't know.
Just keep your eyes shut.
(Kyra yelling)
(keyboard keys clacking)
(Amber screaming)
(machine pulsing)
(mysterious music)
[Overseer] You heard?
She started to remember.
[Experimenter] Only fragments,
nothing of consequence.
I detected no sign that she
remembered her foster parents
being burned alive.
[Overseer] She's too erratic.
She's gonna need your color
blinders if she keeps this up.
No, no, she's still far more
stable than the prototypes.
She's no John or Kyra,
but she's far more valuable, untethered.
For now.
(mysterious music)
(keyboard keys clacking)
(machine whining)
(rapid sonic pulses)
(Kyra moaning)
(dramatic music)
John.
Yeah, I'm here.
(both moaning)
You may open your eyes now.
The trial is finished.
(dramatic music)
You cannot close your
eyes to the world forever.
(dramatic music)
What are we doing here?
Why did you do this to us?
I must congratulate
you both on your behavior.
It pleases me to see
two volunteers succeed.
Volunteers?
We didn't volunteer for this.
Oh, but you did.
Daniel Hawkins, do you freely volunteer
to be a research subject
during the course of the study?
Yeah.
Daniel?
Sarah Lott, do you freely volunteer
to be a research subject during this study?
(dramatic music)
Yes.
[Experimenter] Please sign this form?
Those aren't our names.
You tricked us.
[Experimenter] The form states
that you consent of your own free will.
And upon successful
completion of the study,
your death sentence will
be commuted to life in prison.
Life in prison?
Why would we have a death sentence?
(dramatic music)
Daniel Hawkins fractured
a girl's skull with a hammer
and then disposed of her body in the river.
Sarah Lott, nurse, murdered
six infants at the hospital
where she administered care.
You are Daniel Hawkins and Sarah Lott.
That is who you are.
You're wrong.
You're confused.
I'm not Sarah, I'm Kyra.
- I'm a.
- A grocery worker
who formerly had a sweet
little dog named Freedom.
I'm not Sarah.
I'm not Daniel.
You prove that both
the memory suppression
and the new memory
implants are 100% effective.
Both of you freely volunteered
to be test subjects in this.
The first origin study to
determine if nature or nurture
has been the cause of your
violent, antisocial behavior.
At the beginning of this experiment,
all memory of your former lives
and crimes were suppressed.
They were overlaid with
memories that I created
and which were completely absent of trauma.
Different memories, different nurture,
but same physical bodies, same nature.
And yet you both were
not inherently violent here.
No signs of being born killers.
(dramatic music)
You've given us extremely
valuable data to work with.
What are you talking about?
All will become clear when
the true memories resurface.
(machine whining)
Close your eyes.
(machine whining)
Don't hurt yourself.
This is what you want.
I'm bringing Sarah and Daniel back.
You'll soon become the
people you once were.
I'm not Sarah, I'm Kyra.
[Experimenter] Stay where you are.
There is no place else to go.
Kyra and John do not exist.
I know who I am.
Those are not your memories.
Those are constructs.
You're crazy.
(dramatic music)
Soon you'll have no
memory of this or of each other.
You can't do that to us.
There is nothing to gain by doing this.
It is time to reveal your
old selves once more.
John, keep your eyes shut.
Follow me.
There is nowhere for you to go.
(alarm blaring)
(dramatic music)
(alarm stops)
Hold on.
(dramatic music)
Fuck this.
Come on.
(dramatic music)
The wall.
We got to follow the wall.
Okay.
It got to lead to a door somewhere.
I think I remember this.
Who knows how long we've been here?
We just have to get out.
Keep your eyes down
and watch out for the lights.
Right.
(dramatic music)
(Kyra gasping)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra gasping)
(door thudding)
(dramatic music)
(pro to grunting)
John, eyes down, come on.
(dramatic music)
(both panting)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra gasping)
This way.
Come on, come on.
(dramatic music)
Faster.
(dramatic music)
(John groaning)
Ah you bastard.
Ah.
(dramatic music)
No.
(dramatic music)
No.
(dramatic music)
(both groaning)
(dramatic music)
What the?
(guard panting)
Hands behind your back.
(dramatic music)
(guard grunting)
Don't even think about it.
(dramatic music)
[John] It's safe.
I turned it off.
[Kyra] I got his key
card. Let's find the exit.
(dramatic music)
(dramatic music)
(door clanking)
(dramatic music)
(both panting)
(dramatic music)
(both panting)
(dramatic music)
(both panting)
(dramatic music)
(both panting)
Which way do we go?
Doesn't matter.
We just need to keep going.
Ah.
John.
(dramatic music)
(John moaning)
(dramatic music)
Oh, oh, come on, come on.
Come on.
Come on.
(John groaning)
Go on, leave me.
No, keep moving.
You gotta go on for the both of us.
Please, one of us gotta get outta this.
One of us have to survive.
(both groaning)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra panting)
Please.
(dramatic music)
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra panting)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra crying)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra crying)
(dramatic music)
(wind gushing)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra crying)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra panting)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra panting)
(wind gushing)
(Amber singing)
(Amber screaming)
(dramatic music)
(Amber screaming)
(dramatic music)
(Amber screaming)
(dramatic music)
(Amber screaming)
Okay, come on, we gotta go get up.
Okay.
(Amber screaming)
We need to get out of the open.
(dramatic music)
(wind gushing)
(dramatic music)
Just a little farther.
(dramatic music)
Here we go.
And down.
Here we go.
(dramatic music)
It's gonna be okay sweetie.
(dramatic music)
Okay, hold still on the count of three.
One.
(Amber screaming)
(dramatic music)
(Amber crying)
I thought you were dead, from before.
Before when?
You don't remember?
They came at you.
How did you get out here?
How'd you escape?
I was just here walking with Lily.
(dramatic music)
We need to keep moving.
Come on, there you go.
Give me your arm.
Okay.
Okay.
(dramatic music)
There you go.
(dramatic music)
[Nev] Help.
Help.
Somebody help.
It's a test.
He's still testing me.
Test?
To see if I'd help you, him,
or leave you both out here to die.
That's why it was so damn
easy for me to escape.
Help.
[Kyra] We're still just lab rats.
Anybody.
(dramatic music)
Help.
Help.
Who's, who's there?
Help me.
Help.
Help.
Oh, who's there?
Who is it?
Thank God.
Get me free.
[Kyra] Do you remember me?
Oh, I remember you.
And I remember the crazy lady too.
(robot cat meowing)
Get this thing off me.
(dramatic music)
(wind gushing)
What are you looking for?
Arrows.
What?
Just stay in front of me and hold still.
What arrows?
[Kyra] Ask her.
A mine.
A good place to hide deep inside.
(dramatic music)
(chains clanking)
We need to get outta
here before they come.
Do you know which way to go?
Away.
Wait, help me.
(dramatic music)
(keyboard keys clacking)
[Experimenter] The threat
of their memories being erased
was all the motivation they needed.
They fought to free themselves.
And as you can see, they
were determined to stay together.
(dramatic music)
John was attacked and
then had a golden opportunity
to kill the officer, but he didn't,
he let him live despite the provocation.
Therefore, John has fully passed the test
and I have removed him from the program.
Kyra would've shocked that guard
if we hadn't disabled the stun gun.
She would've shocked
him to death for all we know.
True.
But Kyra still has a
chance to redeem herself.
In fact, I'm pleased to report that after,
what she considered to be
risking her life to save Amber,
she once again halted
her escape to assist Nev.
I'm still not comfortable
with them being outside.
[Experimenter] With careful
monitoring there is no risk.
How do you expect to
keep her in check out there,
with your audio and light show?
Sensory programming.
And we don't need to rely on that.
Worst case, there's always the fail safe.
But that won't be necessary.
I say we stop while we're ahead.
Pull her out, just like John.
I'm the one who
decides when this is over.
If you want me to sign off on that report.
(dramatic music)
All right.
(dramatic music)
(footsteps crunching)
What'd the doctor guy say?
Doesn't matter.
All he did was lie.
Come on.
You actually saw him.
The boss guy, the fucking puppet master.
What'd he say?
He said, John and I
aren't who we think we are.
Who'd he say you were?
He called us Daniel and Sarah.
He said we're killers.
Killers, you two?
Yeah, that's a good one.
He's just messing with you.
(walkie screeches)
What the fuck?
Ah.
How'd you get this?
They planted that on me.
It's obviously a test, guys.
To see what you guys would do to me.
Hey, back the fuck up, both of you.
You've been in on this the whole time.
What did they do to John?
Nothing.
You two are all they care about.
Why?
Because you're a success.
Not like you.
Your memories didn't
fully take to your brain.
You're almost as crazy
as the first prototypes.
(dramatic music)
You're lying.
You've been lying this whole time.
You're one of them.
No, I'm a volunteer plucked
from death row, just like you.
I'm not a murderer.
Yes you are.
You just don't know it.
Because you're the subject
of neural programming.
Fucking brainwashed.
They put so many fake
fucking memories in your head.
There are no fake memories.
You're so fucking stupid.
I know I killed people.
I still have my memories.
He permitted it.
I'm the control.
You don't get it.
Hello.
I egged you guys on.
I tried to get you guys to
kill each other, kill others.
And you didn't.
No matter what I did.
No matter how much stress they put on you,
not even those fucking chained protos,
you and John never fucking cracked.
You never went back
to your old killer ways.
(dramatic music)
Do you even know who Daniel and Sarah are?
There is no Daniel or Sarah.
We're not them.
(dramatic music)
(Nev laughing)
No wonder they think you
two are the poster children
that are gonna make all their
sick fucking dreams come true.
(Amber screaming)
Hey.
(electronic screech)
(Amber choking)
No.
(dramatic music)
(both grunting)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra panting)
It's wood.
Yeah, it's wood.
Carved it myself.
You think they'd give me a real gun?
(Kyra panting)
(Amber gagging)
What did you do to her?
I didn't do anything.
They did it.
They triggered it.
Triggered what?
(Amber coughing)
(Amber coughing)
(dramatic music)
Shit, fuck this shit, I'm outta here.
(Amber gagging)
(dramatic music)
Oh no, come on, come on.
Stay with me.
Come back.
Come on, you have to come back.
(Kyra crying)
(machine beeping)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra panting)
(dramatic music)
(Amber crying)
I'm so sorry.
(robot cat meowing)
(dramatic music)
Where are we going?
We have to get behind
rock, block the signal.
(dramatic music)
No, please.
(dramatic music)
Please don't hurt yourself.
Those restraints were not
designed to break free this time.
Let me go.
I will, John.
You have performed admirably.
It's time for you to leave.
No, no.
(machine whining)
Relax, John.
This iteration of you
has served its purpose.
And now Daniel must resurface,
which means you must be erased.
Don't worry, it won't hurt.
(rapid sonic pulses)
(slow muffled breathing)
(suspenseful music)
For the record,
what is your full name?
Daniel Hawkins.
And what is the last thing you remember?
Laying here.
How long I been here?
Did I fall asleep?
Yes.
You have been asleep.
(dramatic music)
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
In there.
Hurry.
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
(footsteps echoing)
I think we lost 'em.
(both panting)
This should work.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Gimme that arrow.
(dramatic music)
We need to cut it out now.
Or we'll never escape.
Cut what out?
The thing they stuck
in the back of our neck.
They trigger it whenever
things get too out of hand,
like they did with Amber.
How do you know?
I get to remember, remember?
I've seen it happen over
and over and over again.
I've seen them take down a big guy
in seconds, just like that.
And every time they
grabbed the back of their neck,
same spot.
So I checked it.
You can feel a small
bump underneath the skin.
Try it.
(dramatic music)
See.
Now gimme the arrow.
(dramatic music)
Come on.
(dramatic music)
They've never let me out.
There is no way
that they can trigger
it through these rocks.
(dramatic music)
This might be the only
chance we have to escape.
(dramatic music)
Let me cut yours out.
No.
I'm not letting you practice on me.
Fine, do me first.
(dramatic music)
Take your shirt off?
I need to make bandages.
(dramatic music)
Take a knee.
(dramatic music)
It's right there, feel it?
Mm.
(dramatic music)
Hold still.
(dramatic music)
(Nev groaning)
(dramatic music)
(Nev groaning)
Fuck.
(dramatic music)
Did you get it?
Yeah.
(dramatic music)
It's got liquid inside.
It's gotta be poison.
[Kyra] Yeah.
I bet they track us with it too.
(dramatic music)
Nice.
You're a good nurse.
(dramatic music)
Trust me.
Just get the thing out of my neck.
(dramatic music)
(Kyra groaning)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra groaning)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra gasping)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra chocking)
[Guard] I'm in the east tunnel.
The test subjects, they appear dead.
I don't know what happened.
Do you copy?
(dramatic music)
(guard screaming)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra yelling)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra gasping)
Hey that was quick
thinking, that playing dead.
What if it's all true?
All of it, everything.
Holy shit.
They broke you, didn't they?
(dramatic music)
I killed him.
Self defense, I'd acquit.
(dramatic music)
Here.
(dramatic music)
I.
I had a memory, giving Amber CPR.
A baby in a hospital.
I was trying to bring her back.
Not me, but her.
Sarah.
But it doesn't feel real.
These flashes, it's like they're fake.
Like false memories.
False memories?
You are the false memory.
(dramatic music)
(drone motor buzzing)
- What the?
- Oh shit.
Fuck.
(drone motor revving)
(dramatic music)
(drone motor revving)
(dramatic music)
(drone motor revving)
(Kyra panting)
(drone motor revving)
(Kyra panting)
(dramatic music)
(drone motor revving)
Woah. In there.
(dramatic music)
(drone motor revving)
(dramatic music)
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
(drone motor revving)
(dramatic music)
[Experimenter] As you read in the report,
the experiment demonstrates how well
the implanted memories hold under stress.
In early cycles we wiped
all newly formed memories between tests
so that we could see what
memories would seep back through
and what would trigger them.
They did remember some things.
But only trivial things
from previous tests.
As you saw when he showed
them volunteering for the study,
they still didn't remember
who they really were.
Yes, it's encouraging.
But additional funding is
not in this year's budget.
There's a deficit.
It costs $90,000 a year
to incarcerate a person
on death row.
And there's currently
2,978 inmates on death row.
If you do the math, that's $268 million
a year.
But what if instead of that cost,
an inmate's identity could be replaced
with a memory implant?
They're released, they're
given a minimum wage job.
They're now costing the state nothing.
Instead they're paying taxes,
contributing to society.
It's like a prison chain gang,
without the prison and without the chain.
(dramatic music)
With a successful roll out,
eventually there will be no death row,
no prison industrial complex.
And that would please everyone in society,
bleeding hards and hardliners.
It's.
It's a perfect coalition.
It's still going to be a tough sell.
They were sentenced to die.
That's what the victim's families want.
True.
But if a murderer no longer
remembers who they are,
isn't that person in fact dead?
(dramatic music)
I'll leave you two to discuss the details.
(dramatic music)
What happened?
[Security] We found
the officer dead in a tunnel,
Zone Five.
Nev did this?
[Security] That's the
last video on his body cam.
[Guard] I'm in the East
Tunnel, the test subjects,
they appear dead.
I don't know what happened.
Do you copy?
(guard screaming)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra screaming)
(dramatic music)
[Experimenter] Kyra.
[Security] They removed
their kill-switch tracker.
Nev is helping her. He's on the run.
A drone showed them entering the mine.
What are your orders?
Sir?
Unleash the prototypes into the mine.
[Security] The protos?
But sir, the rock will block all signals.
We won't be able to control them in there.
(electronic beep)
[Experimenter] No need.
Default set the blinders to red,
no restraints.
They'll flush them out
or eliminate the problem.
[Security] Yes sir.
And tell no one about this, no one.
Yes sir.
(dramatic music)
(footsteps crunching)
[Nev] Hold it.
What the hell?
I think I might have been here before.
That means we're right back
to where we escaped from.
Maybe not.
This is an old mine.
They could be using it tying into it, but
this mine was here way before they were.
You could have easily
gone through another tunnel
and not even known it.
We need to find another way out.
Another way that
they're not gonna think of.
Gimme the light.
Why?
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
What is it?
This way.
[Nev] Now how do you
know it's this way, not this way?
'Cause the candy told you to?
[Kyra] Yes, I'm following the candy.
I remember this.
[Nev] I'll take that.
Hey, what do you remember?
(dramatic music)
(chains clanking)
(dramatic music)
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
(distorted footsteps crunching)
How the hell did this get here?
I think I did it sometime in a past test.
(distant clanking)
What the hell is that?
Let's go.
(dramatic music)
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra screaming)
Run.
No, this way.
(distorted footsteps crunching)
(Kyra's distorted voice) Kill your light.
(pro to heavy breathing)
(pro to yelling)
(dramatic music)
(both screaming)
(dramatic music)
(both panting)
Back up.
(dramatic music)
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
This way.
Come on.
Wait.
(dramatic music)
What?
Shh.
Listen.
(suspenseful music)
- Nothing.
- No.
Do you have any memory
of this place from a past test?
[Kyra] No.
You sure?
Good.
Then we might be going the right way.
(dramatic music)
Watch your step.
(dramatic music)
What?
[Kyra] That fish, it must
have gotten in here somehow.
That way.
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
(wind gushing)
We're on the other side of the mountain.
They'll never look for us here.
(dramatic music)
(wind gushing)
(drone motor revving)
Shit, there's another drone.
They're searching this area.
They'll find us.
(Nev groaning)
(dramatic music)
I'm sorry.
I need you to buy me some time.
Why?
You killed people,
you deserve it.
You killed babies.
Not me.
Sarah.
(dramatic music)
You'll never make it outta here alive.
You'll die out here, you hear me?
You hear?
(dramatic music)
(drone motor revving)
[Security] We've located
the Control, Zone 12.
He appears injured.
Request immediate medevac
and containment, over.
[Guard] Copy.
Team Victor, en route, will extract, over.
[Security] No sign
yet of the test subject.
Redirect all searching to
zones 12 through 15, over.
[Drone operator] Copy.
Redirecting all drone flight paths.
(dramatic music)
I sign, it's over.
[Experimenter] Yes, you passed the test.
I don't remember anything.
Short term memory loss
is one of the side effects
of the experiment.
Please just sign, Daniel.
Thank you.
(dramatic music)
When are they moving me outta here?
I'm afraid there was a
bit of miscommunication.
No.
I signed up.
I did it, I'm supposed to
receive a life sentence.
We had a deal.
[Experimenter] Guard.
I'm innocent.
That woman was dead when I found her.
I went into the water to save her.
I didn't do it.
Guard.
(door unlocking)
You got the wrong man.
For the sake of the
positive data, I hope not.
Come back.
You can't leave me here.
(door locking)
(drone motor revving)
(dramatic music)
(drone motor revving)
(dramatic music)
[Security] Test subject
located in Zone 13.
Request viper strike, over.
[Drone operator] Copy.
Nearest viper en route to coordinates.
(Kyra panting)
[Security] She's heading north on DR2.
(drone motor revving)
[Drone operator] Viper
has sighted the target.
(Kyra panting)
(drone motor revving)
Target in range.
Initiating Code Blue.
(drone motor revving)
[Experimenter] Why would you do that?
Bludgeon that guard to death
and stabbing Nev.
You can speak freely.
We're all alone here.
(suspenseful music)
Your violent behavior is quite disturbing.
You should not be capable.
You should have been more like John.
Where is John?
I wanna see him.
You want John?
Well, I can take anyone at any
time, put them in the machine
and create as many Johns
as you want, as I want.
In fact, that's what I plan on doing.
The John implant has had a
tremendous amount of success
and the positive results
need to be replicated.
You want to see John,
tell me why you attacked them.
It's your last chance.
(suspenseful music)
The guard?
He was going to capture me.
And Nev?
There was a drone
coming, I needed a distraction,
to get away, to survive.
Interesting.
What happened to all those implanted,
passive personality traits,
all those happy memories?
Happy memories?
You put us through hell again and again
through this torture.
How many times have you done this to us?
Yes, all the tests, all the
residual subconscious trauma,
all unfortunate side
effects of suppressing,
but still preserving who
you really are, Sarah,
makes it impossible to completely
wipe the slate clean every time.
But John was in the same implant group,
had the same latent memories of the test
and his results were successful.
(suspenseful music)
Unless,
this means he actually was innocent.
And if that's the case, then his success is
meaningless.
(suspenseful music)
No.
I have to thank you.
I now know what I need to do.
Stay the fuck away from me.
I will no longer
suppress the test subject's true identity.
I will insist that they are
eradicated completely.
It won't matter who they
were before, guilty, innocent,
it will make no difference.
They'll be gone.
There will be no more bleed through,
no more corrupted test results.
(Kyra screaming)
Whoa.
(dramatic music)
Okay.
I'm sorry, but,
there's no more hope for you.
(dramatic music)
You're just another corrupted reject.
(Kyra screaming)
And your implant is retired.
No.
(dramatic music)
No.
I don't wanna be Sarah.
Don't worry, I promise
you'll never have to be Sarah again.
And you'll be with John.
John.
(machine whining)
(rapid sonic pulses)
(alarm blaring)
(suspenseful music)
(chain rattling)
(suspenseful music)
(fire crackling)
(footsteps stomping)
(blinder electronic pulse)
Hey, what's going on?
How'd we get here?
(blinder electronic pulse)
(suspenseful music)
Can you hear me?
I'm John.
(suspenseful music)
(blinder electronic pulse)
(dramatic music)
John.
You gotta kill it.
What?
Choke it, use the chain.
(dramatic music)
No, I don't want to hurt her.
Her? It.
You gotta hurt it, if you wanna live.
(blinder electronic pulse)
(Kyra groaning)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra groaning)
Stick your fingers in its eyes.
Right into the sockets, blind it.
No, I can't.
Do you want to live?
Kill the pro to.
(Kyra screaming)
(Kyra scream echoing out)
(dramatic music)
(rapid sonic pulses)
(rapid sonic pulses)
(suspenseful music)
(rapid sonic pulses)
(suspenseful music)
(John groaning)
What the.
(suspenseful music)
What the hell is this?
(blinder electronic pulse)
Shit.
(dramatic music)
(blinder electronic pulse)
(footsteps thudding)
Wait, stop, stop, stop, ah.
Wait. Hey. Hey, listen.
We're chained.
Stop.
Wait.
Stop.
You're gonna break my neck.
(blinder electronic pulse)
Hey.
(electronic sonic pulse)
Hey.
(electronic sonic pulse)
Wait, wait.
(John screaming)
Wait, stop.
(dramatic music)
(John groaning)
What the fuck.
Move.
Fuck off.
Get out.
This is my space.
(Lizzie's distorted
voice) This is my space.
(distorted) You're a dead man.
(distorted) Come here. Here.
(distorted) No.
(distorted) No.
(dramatic music)
(distorted) No.
(blinder electronic pulse)
(pro to grunting)
(distorted) No.
No. No.
(Lizzie choking)
No.
(bone snapping)
(dramatic music)
(blinder electronic pulse)
(pro to deep breathing)
[Kyra] It's no good.
You're not gonna break it.
What's going on here?
I don't know.
I woke up trapped like you.
(dramatic music)
Where are we?
No idea.
Do you have a phone?
No.
How'd we get here?
The last thing I remember,
I was running with my dog.
Then I woke up here
chained to this thing.
What about you?
Playing with my cat.
You didn't see anyone bring me in?
No.
When I woke up, you were
already over there, asleep.
(dramatic music)
I'm John.
Kyra.
[John] Kyra.
Did he kill that girl over there?
Looks like it.
His clothes.
You think he escaped from an insane asylum?
He's crazy all right.
He acts like he doesn't
even know he's chained to me.
What's that thing on his head?
[Nev] Kill him.
[Nev] Over here.
[Nev] Hey.
He needs to kill him before
sleeping beauty wakes up.
[Kyra] Who are you?
Nev.
Kill him.
I'd do it if I could.
How'd you get in here?
Last thing I remember I was
delivering pizzas on my bike
and I pulled over to take
a piss in some bushes
and then wham I woke up here.
Someone hit you?
No, I don't know.
I don't remember.
It doesn't matter, I'm trapped here now.
You need to kill the big
guy before he kills us.
(dramatic music)
No, we just gotta get outta here.
That's why you need to kill him.
The chain, choke him with your chain.
Stick your fingers in his eyes.
Right in the socket.
Blind him.
Jump on his throat.
Just shut up, all right.
I'm trying to think.
He's gonna kill us all.
It's gonna be your fault.
(dramatic music)
[Kyra] Be careful, John.
(chains clanking)
(suspenseful music)
(blinder electronic pulse)
(dramatic music)
I found a soldering iron.
Kill that bastard.
(dramatic music)
Oh no.
Pull him back, pull
him back, pull him back.
[John] I'm trying.
[Nev] No, no, no. You
don't want to do that.
Pull, pull, pull him back.
(blinder electronic pulse)
(blinder electronic pulse)
(chain clanking)
(dramatic music)
Shit.
No, no.
Don't hurt her.
Stop him.
(dramatic music)
(pro to grunting)
(blinder electronic pulse)
(pro to heavy breathing)
(blinder electronic pulse)
No.
(dramatic music)
I can't stop him.
(Kyra's distorted voice) Damn it.
(Kyra screaming)
Let me go.
I'm trying to find the blue light.
Get off of me.
(Kyra screaming)
Ah, it's not working.
John, get the soldering iron,
down there on the floor.
Stab him.
(dramatic music)
(Kyra screaming)
(Kyra screaming)
(dramatic music)
Got it.
Stab him.
(Kyra screaming)
(dramatic music)
Do it John, or we're both dead.
(John groaning)
John.
(dramatic music)
(blinder electronic pulse)
(John choking)
(dramatic music)
(electronic screech)
(pro to choking)
(dramatic music)
(pro to coughing)
(suspenseful music)
(Proto's rasping breaths)
(alarm blaring)
(alarm blaring)
(rapid sonic pulses)
(water dripping)
(Kyra groaning)
(suspenseful music)
(water pattering)
Hello.
Anyone here?
(water pattering)
(suspenseful music)
Hello.
(suspenseful music)
Can anyone hear me?
(footsteps crunching)
(Kyra panting)
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
(water pattering)
(faint singing)
Who's there?
(faint singing)
Hello.
(faint singing)
(faint singing stops)
(water pattering)
(suspenseful music)
(Kyra gasping)
(suspenseful music)
Don't touch her.
Don't touch my kitty.
You hurt my kitty.
I didn't.
I'm just trying to find my way out of here.
(suspenseful music)
How'd you get in here?
(cat purring)
(motor whirring)
(robot cat meowing)
I need to feed Lily.
No. Wait.
Where are you going?
Does this lead out?
[Amber] No.
[Kyra] Do you know a way out of here?
There's no way out.
Can you at least tell me your name?
[Amber] Amber.
[Kyra] Amber?
(suspenseful music)
Bread, forks, spoons.
No knives though.
Not a single knife.
You want a sandwich, Lily?
PBJ.
(motor whirring)
(robot cat purring)
"Remember you know John."
Did you put that there?
No.
Do you know a John?
No.
You?
I.
I don't know.
(metal clanking)
Did you hear that?
(metal clanking)
What is that?
(suspenseful music)
(water pattering)
(suspenseful music)
Is that a dagger?
No.
It is just a.
What?
I don't know.
I've seen it somewhere before.
When?
I don't know.
(suspenseful music)
(water pattering)
I think some guy, he held it.
John.
I think it was John.
Why can't I remember?
How did you end up here?
I woke up here, I was just here.
What do you remember before that?
Think.
Last thing I remember
is standing in a
beautiful field of flowers.
(suspenseful music)
(water pattering)
Flowers.
(suspenseful music)
Flowers are for funerals.
(suspenseful music)
(water pattering)
Those could garnish many, many funerals.
(water pattering)
Two caskets two by two
Equals none
(suspenseful music)
Do you remember
anything else before that?
I'm not sure.
I mean, it's all foggy.
But I can remember lots of things,
it's just all glitchy.
Yeah, same here.
It's like it's fragmented.
Like I know I had a dog.
Her name was Freedom.
She was born on the 4th of July.
(metal clanking)
(dramatic music)
(water pattering)
(metal clanking)
(suspenseful music)
(footsteps thudding)
(dramatic music)
I lied, there was one knife.
I'm not gonna let you stab Lily.
Stop.
(both groaning)
Let me.
Drop it.
(Amber screaming)
(dramatic music)
I'll break her neck.
Don't hurt Lily.
Why did you attack me?
You were gonna stab us.
I wasn't gonna stab anyone.
Give me Lily.
You give me the knife.
I'll put it away.
No.
(dramatic music)
Give me Lily.
(dramatic music)
Oh God.
Amber, hold on.
(dramatic music)
(water pattering)
What's happening?
(dramatic music)
The blue light.
(Kyra groaning)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra groaning)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra groaning)
(keyboard clacking)
[Overseer] It's a shame,
it never fully succeeded with him.
[Experimenter] We
wouldn't be where we are now
without what we learned
from him and the others.
[Overseer] All right,
let's reset, start again.
(dramatic music)
(Kyra groaning)
[Experimenter] She has
introduced a new variable.
[Overseer] "Know John."
How could she remember John?
I don't know, but it will be enlightening
to see its effect.
(machine whining)
No please.
I want to remember.
(machine whining)
(rapid sonic pulses)
Get out.
Get out.
Both of you out.
Get the hell away from me.
Out.
(dramatic music)
(Maggie screaming)
Oh shit.
(Maggie screaming)
(dramatic music)
[Kyra] What the hell was that?
Them.
They're out there.
Whatever you do, stay in the light.
Do not leave the light.
Do you understand?
[Tanner] Come on out.
Show yourselves.
They're all around us.
We can fight 'em.
Yeah, we'll gang up.
We'll march out there.
You're an idiot.
I know, I have been here the longest.
I'm the real old timer.
I am the queen of the light pool.
[John] Where are we? How did we get here?
[Rosa] No one knows.
No one knows how we got here.
[Nev] No.
A light suddenly appears,
and folks are there,
just like you two.
Just stay in the light and stay alive.
(Rosa laughing)
We're trapped prisoners.
Don't you understand?
Just stay in the middle.
(dramatic music)
Your arm.
What happened?
[Nev] We're trapped prisoners.
I think I did it.
I'm John.
[Nev] Just stay in the middle.
I think we've met before.
When?
- [Nev] Don't push.
- Before.
There has to be a before all this.
This must be to remember.
We have to remember.
Why, why don't we?
I don't know.
[Rosa] Stand in the middle of the light.
It must be part of what's happening here.
They're messing with us.
A sick game?
Maybe it's some kind of test.
Lab rats.
Do you remember doing
something like this before?
I remember not remembering.
Like, like not remembering
many times before, with you.
Yeah, with me.
I feel that.
But you don't remember
how many times we've met.
Just like we don't
remember how we got here.
Or how many times we've done this before.
(suspenseful music)
"Black lite."
What does that mean?
I don't know.
(baby crying)
(baby crying)
(suspenseful music)
(Kyra gasping)
(chain retracting)
(dramatic music)
Oh, they're moving again.
Come on.
Come on.
(Tanner's distorted voice) Come on.
(distorted) Hey, watch
it. I'll throw you out.
(yelling) Get back.
I'll burn it down.
I'll burn it all down.
You're not my family,
you can't just take me in.
(robot cat meowing)
You don't know me.
You can't feel my pain.
You are fucking crazy.
(both groaning)
Please stop, please stop, please stop.
Look, look, the light, it's
changing, it's getting smaller.
[Rosa] Get in tight to the center,
as close to each other as you can.
Hold on to each other.
(Amber moaning)
[Kyra] That's it.
Keep to the middle.
(dramatic music)
Come on.
Come on.
(Amber groaning)
(dramatic music)
(all distorted groaning)
(all groaning)
[Tanner] Come on. Come on.
(Amber screaming)
No, no.
[John] Come on, come on.
- [John] Come on, come on.
- [Kyra] Come to us. Come on.
[Kyra] You can make it.
(John's Distorted
voice) Come on, come on.
[Kyra] You can make it.
(Kyra screaming)
Let, let, let me in.
- You're pulling me out.
- Let me in.
(Rosa's distorted voice)
Let me in, into the light.
(Rosa screaming)
(Rosa screaming fades away to silence)
What did you do?
Why?
(robot cat purring)
For Lily.
(suspenseful music)
Lily.
(robot cat purring)
Hello forever.
(Amber screaming)
(dramatic music)
(trap door shutting)
(robot cat meowing)
(suspenseful music)
(chains rattling)
That's it.
Take this piece of shit.
(dramatic music)
No, no.
(dramatic music)
Take him.
Stop, stop it.
Leave him alone.
This is my light.
(dramatic music)
Mine.
(Tanner grunting)
No. No.
(Tanner's distorted screams)
(Tanner screaming)
(dramatic music)
(suspenseful music)
(footsteps thudding)
(Tanner screaming)
Help me.
(dramatic music)
(chains rattling)
(dramatic music)
[John] Those things, ah.
Ugh.
[Kyra] There's something
about them, right?
The chains, the things
on their heads, the lights.
I swear I've seen them somewhere before,
but I don't know.
Why can't you remember?
Why can't I remember anything?
But we remember our pasts
before we got trapped here.
Do we?
All my memories are hazy.
I vaguely recall what I was doing before.
What do you really remember?
Huh?
Yeah, up here, it's like flashes of things,
but what's in the gaps?
Yeah.
Yeah, you're right.
I can only remember what pops into my head,
but nothing I actually try to remember.
It's like huge chunks of
my past are just missing.
What's happening to you, to me?
They're suppressing our memories.
Slowly scrubbing them.
John, if we don't get out of here,
we might not remember who we even are.
That's it, you were right.
We're lab rats.
My light's not shrinking anymore.
It's still the same.
(suspenseful music)
(chains rattling)
He wore chains.
The big guy with chains.
He's the one who hit me.
You were there, you as well.
[Nev] You guys don't remember.
Think.
I don't remember you.
(chains rattling)
The soldering iron, I threw it to you.
Soldering iron.
[Nev] Yeah.
You went completely crazy.
You stabbed a guy to death.
You ripped him apart like a pinata.
You don't remember me?
I'm Nev.
(Kyra gasps)
Our circle's getting smaller.
(dramatic music)
Get in the middle.
Whatever you do, don't
let the darkness touch you.
(chains rattling)
It's no good.
- [John] Turn around.
- [Nev] Think of something.
You're both aren't gonna fit in there.
One of you has gotta take the whole light
or you're both dead.
One of you is gonna have
to shove the other one out.
You don't have a choice.
Do it or you're gonna die.
(dramatic music)
You'd both rather die?
Just push her out.
Whatever happens,
we stick together.
Whatever happens.
(Proto screaming)
(chains retracting)
(chains retracting)
(chains retracting stops)
(chains retracting)
(chains retracting stops)
(suspenseful music)
[John] They took 'em away.
They?
They, them, whoever's doing this.
But why?
Maybe it's over.
We passed the test.
Test?
Oh, it's a test.
(suspenseful music)
What?
(alarm blaring)
The light.
(alarm blaring)
Block, block light.
- What?
- Don't look at the light.
Okay. Just trust me.
(alarm blaring)
Please John, whatever
you do, don't open your eyes.
(alarm blaring)
Don't look. Please, John.
Whatever you do, don't look at the light
(alarm horn)
[John] What's happening?
I don't know.
Just keep your eyes shut.
(Kyra yelling)
(keyboard keys clacking)
(Amber screaming)
(machine pulsing)
(mysterious music)
[Overseer] You heard?
She started to remember.
[Experimenter] Only fragments,
nothing of consequence.
I detected no sign that she
remembered her foster parents
being burned alive.
[Overseer] She's too erratic.
She's gonna need your color
blinders if she keeps this up.
No, no, she's still far more
stable than the prototypes.
She's no John or Kyra,
but she's far more valuable, untethered.
For now.
(mysterious music)
(keyboard keys clacking)
(machine whining)
(rapid sonic pulses)
(Kyra moaning)
(dramatic music)
John.
Yeah, I'm here.
(both moaning)
You may open your eyes now.
The trial is finished.
(dramatic music)
You cannot close your
eyes to the world forever.
(dramatic music)
What are we doing here?
Why did you do this to us?
I must congratulate
you both on your behavior.
It pleases me to see
two volunteers succeed.
Volunteers?
We didn't volunteer for this.
Oh, but you did.
Daniel Hawkins, do you freely volunteer
to be a research subject
during the course of the study?
Yeah.
Daniel?
Sarah Lott, do you freely volunteer
to be a research subject during this study?
(dramatic music)
Yes.
[Experimenter] Please sign this form?
Those aren't our names.
You tricked us.
[Experimenter] The form states
that you consent of your own free will.
And upon successful
completion of the study,
your death sentence will
be commuted to life in prison.
Life in prison?
Why would we have a death sentence?
(dramatic music)
Daniel Hawkins fractured
a girl's skull with a hammer
and then disposed of her body in the river.
Sarah Lott, nurse, murdered
six infants at the hospital
where she administered care.
You are Daniel Hawkins and Sarah Lott.
That is who you are.
You're wrong.
You're confused.
I'm not Sarah, I'm Kyra.
- I'm a.
- A grocery worker
who formerly had a sweet
little dog named Freedom.
I'm not Sarah.
I'm not Daniel.
You prove that both
the memory suppression
and the new memory
implants are 100% effective.
Both of you freely volunteered
to be test subjects in this.
The first origin study to
determine if nature or nurture
has been the cause of your
violent, antisocial behavior.
At the beginning of this experiment,
all memory of your former lives
and crimes were suppressed.
They were overlaid with
memories that I created
and which were completely absent of trauma.
Different memories, different nurture,
but same physical bodies, same nature.
And yet you both were
not inherently violent here.
No signs of being born killers.
(dramatic music)
You've given us extremely
valuable data to work with.
What are you talking about?
All will become clear when
the true memories resurface.
(machine whining)
Close your eyes.
(machine whining)
Don't hurt yourself.
This is what you want.
I'm bringing Sarah and Daniel back.
You'll soon become the
people you once were.
I'm not Sarah, I'm Kyra.
[Experimenter] Stay where you are.
There is no place else to go.
Kyra and John do not exist.
I know who I am.
Those are not your memories.
Those are constructs.
You're crazy.
(dramatic music)
Soon you'll have no
memory of this or of each other.
You can't do that to us.
There is nothing to gain by doing this.
It is time to reveal your
old selves once more.
John, keep your eyes shut.
Follow me.
There is nowhere for you to go.
(alarm blaring)
(dramatic music)
(alarm stops)
Hold on.
(dramatic music)
Fuck this.
Come on.
(dramatic music)
The wall.
We got to follow the wall.
Okay.
It got to lead to a door somewhere.
I think I remember this.
Who knows how long we've been here?
We just have to get out.
Keep your eyes down
and watch out for the lights.
Right.
(dramatic music)
(Kyra gasping)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra gasping)
(door thudding)
(dramatic music)
(pro to grunting)
John, eyes down, come on.
(dramatic music)
(both panting)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra gasping)
This way.
Come on, come on.
(dramatic music)
Faster.
(dramatic music)
(John groaning)
Ah you bastard.
Ah.
(dramatic music)
No.
(dramatic music)
No.
(dramatic music)
(both groaning)
(dramatic music)
What the?
(guard panting)
Hands behind your back.
(dramatic music)
(guard grunting)
Don't even think about it.
(dramatic music)
[John] It's safe.
I turned it off.
[Kyra] I got his key
card. Let's find the exit.
(dramatic music)
(dramatic music)
(door clanking)
(dramatic music)
(both panting)
(dramatic music)
(both panting)
(dramatic music)
(both panting)
(dramatic music)
(both panting)
Which way do we go?
Doesn't matter.
We just need to keep going.
Ah.
John.
(dramatic music)
(John moaning)
(dramatic music)
Oh, oh, come on, come on.
Come on.
Come on.
(John groaning)
Go on, leave me.
No, keep moving.
You gotta go on for the both of us.
Please, one of us gotta get outta this.
One of us have to survive.
(both groaning)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra panting)
Please.
(dramatic music)
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra panting)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra crying)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra crying)
(dramatic music)
(wind gushing)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra crying)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra panting)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra panting)
(wind gushing)
(Amber singing)
(Amber screaming)
(dramatic music)
(Amber screaming)
(dramatic music)
(Amber screaming)
(dramatic music)
(Amber screaming)
Okay, come on, we gotta go get up.
Okay.
(Amber screaming)
We need to get out of the open.
(dramatic music)
(wind gushing)
(dramatic music)
Just a little farther.
(dramatic music)
Here we go.
And down.
Here we go.
(dramatic music)
It's gonna be okay sweetie.
(dramatic music)
Okay, hold still on the count of three.
One.
(Amber screaming)
(dramatic music)
(Amber crying)
I thought you were dead, from before.
Before when?
You don't remember?
They came at you.
How did you get out here?
How'd you escape?
I was just here walking with Lily.
(dramatic music)
We need to keep moving.
Come on, there you go.
Give me your arm.
Okay.
Okay.
(dramatic music)
There you go.
(dramatic music)
[Nev] Help.
Help.
Somebody help.
It's a test.
He's still testing me.
Test?
To see if I'd help you, him,
or leave you both out here to die.
That's why it was so damn
easy for me to escape.
Help.
[Kyra] We're still just lab rats.
Anybody.
(dramatic music)
Help.
Help.
Who's, who's there?
Help me.
Help.
Help.
Oh, who's there?
Who is it?
Thank God.
Get me free.
[Kyra] Do you remember me?
Oh, I remember you.
And I remember the crazy lady too.
(robot cat meowing)
Get this thing off me.
(dramatic music)
(wind gushing)
What are you looking for?
Arrows.
What?
Just stay in front of me and hold still.
What arrows?
[Kyra] Ask her.
A mine.
A good place to hide deep inside.
(dramatic music)
(chains clanking)
We need to get outta
here before they come.
Do you know which way to go?
Away.
Wait, help me.
(dramatic music)
(keyboard keys clacking)
[Experimenter] The threat
of their memories being erased
was all the motivation they needed.
They fought to free themselves.
And as you can see, they
were determined to stay together.
(dramatic music)
John was attacked and
then had a golden opportunity
to kill the officer, but he didn't,
he let him live despite the provocation.
Therefore, John has fully passed the test
and I have removed him from the program.
Kyra would've shocked that guard
if we hadn't disabled the stun gun.
She would've shocked
him to death for all we know.
True.
But Kyra still has a
chance to redeem herself.
In fact, I'm pleased to report that after,
what she considered to be
risking her life to save Amber,
she once again halted
her escape to assist Nev.
I'm still not comfortable
with them being outside.
[Experimenter] With careful
monitoring there is no risk.
How do you expect to
keep her in check out there,
with your audio and light show?
Sensory programming.
And we don't need to rely on that.
Worst case, there's always the fail safe.
But that won't be necessary.
I say we stop while we're ahead.
Pull her out, just like John.
I'm the one who
decides when this is over.
If you want me to sign off on that report.
(dramatic music)
All right.
(dramatic music)
(footsteps crunching)
What'd the doctor guy say?
Doesn't matter.
All he did was lie.
Come on.
You actually saw him.
The boss guy, the fucking puppet master.
What'd he say?
He said, John and I
aren't who we think we are.
Who'd he say you were?
He called us Daniel and Sarah.
He said we're killers.
Killers, you two?
Yeah, that's a good one.
He's just messing with you.
(walkie screeches)
What the fuck?
Ah.
How'd you get this?
They planted that on me.
It's obviously a test, guys.
To see what you guys would do to me.
Hey, back the fuck up, both of you.
You've been in on this the whole time.
What did they do to John?
Nothing.
You two are all they care about.
Why?
Because you're a success.
Not like you.
Your memories didn't
fully take to your brain.
You're almost as crazy
as the first prototypes.
(dramatic music)
You're lying.
You've been lying this whole time.
You're one of them.
No, I'm a volunteer plucked
from death row, just like you.
I'm not a murderer.
Yes you are.
You just don't know it.
Because you're the subject
of neural programming.
Fucking brainwashed.
They put so many fake
fucking memories in your head.
There are no fake memories.
You're so fucking stupid.
I know I killed people.
I still have my memories.
He permitted it.
I'm the control.
You don't get it.
Hello.
I egged you guys on.
I tried to get you guys to
kill each other, kill others.
And you didn't.
No matter what I did.
No matter how much stress they put on you,
not even those fucking chained protos,
you and John never fucking cracked.
You never went back
to your old killer ways.
(dramatic music)
Do you even know who Daniel and Sarah are?
There is no Daniel or Sarah.
We're not them.
(dramatic music)
(Nev laughing)
No wonder they think you
two are the poster children
that are gonna make all their
sick fucking dreams come true.
(Amber screaming)
Hey.
(electronic screech)
(Amber choking)
No.
(dramatic music)
(both grunting)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra panting)
It's wood.
Yeah, it's wood.
Carved it myself.
You think they'd give me a real gun?
(Kyra panting)
(Amber gagging)
What did you do to her?
I didn't do anything.
They did it.
They triggered it.
Triggered what?
(Amber coughing)
(Amber coughing)
(dramatic music)
Shit, fuck this shit, I'm outta here.
(Amber gagging)
(dramatic music)
Oh no, come on, come on.
Stay with me.
Come back.
Come on, you have to come back.
(Kyra crying)
(machine beeping)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra panting)
(dramatic music)
(Amber crying)
I'm so sorry.
(robot cat meowing)
(dramatic music)
Where are we going?
We have to get behind
rock, block the signal.
(dramatic music)
No, please.
(dramatic music)
Please don't hurt yourself.
Those restraints were not
designed to break free this time.
Let me go.
I will, John.
You have performed admirably.
It's time for you to leave.
No, no.
(machine whining)
Relax, John.
This iteration of you
has served its purpose.
And now Daniel must resurface,
which means you must be erased.
Don't worry, it won't hurt.
(rapid sonic pulses)
(slow muffled breathing)
(suspenseful music)
For the record,
what is your full name?
Daniel Hawkins.
And what is the last thing you remember?
Laying here.
How long I been here?
Did I fall asleep?
Yes.
You have been asleep.
(dramatic music)
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
In there.
Hurry.
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
(footsteps echoing)
I think we lost 'em.
(both panting)
This should work.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Gimme that arrow.
(dramatic music)
We need to cut it out now.
Or we'll never escape.
Cut what out?
The thing they stuck
in the back of our neck.
They trigger it whenever
things get too out of hand,
like they did with Amber.
How do you know?
I get to remember, remember?
I've seen it happen over
and over and over again.
I've seen them take down a big guy
in seconds, just like that.
And every time they
grabbed the back of their neck,
same spot.
So I checked it.
You can feel a small
bump underneath the skin.
Try it.
(dramatic music)
See.
Now gimme the arrow.
(dramatic music)
Come on.
(dramatic music)
They've never let me out.
There is no way
that they can trigger
it through these rocks.
(dramatic music)
This might be the only
chance we have to escape.
(dramatic music)
Let me cut yours out.
No.
I'm not letting you practice on me.
Fine, do me first.
(dramatic music)
Take your shirt off?
I need to make bandages.
(dramatic music)
Take a knee.
(dramatic music)
It's right there, feel it?
Mm.
(dramatic music)
Hold still.
(dramatic music)
(Nev groaning)
(dramatic music)
(Nev groaning)
Fuck.
(dramatic music)
Did you get it?
Yeah.
(dramatic music)
It's got liquid inside.
It's gotta be poison.
[Kyra] Yeah.
I bet they track us with it too.
(dramatic music)
Nice.
You're a good nurse.
(dramatic music)
Trust me.
Just get the thing out of my neck.
(dramatic music)
(Kyra groaning)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra groaning)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra gasping)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra chocking)
[Guard] I'm in the east tunnel.
The test subjects, they appear dead.
I don't know what happened.
Do you copy?
(dramatic music)
(guard screaming)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra yelling)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra gasping)
Hey that was quick
thinking, that playing dead.
What if it's all true?
All of it, everything.
Holy shit.
They broke you, didn't they?
(dramatic music)
I killed him.
Self defense, I'd acquit.
(dramatic music)
Here.
(dramatic music)
I.
I had a memory, giving Amber CPR.
A baby in a hospital.
I was trying to bring her back.
Not me, but her.
Sarah.
But it doesn't feel real.
These flashes, it's like they're fake.
Like false memories.
False memories?
You are the false memory.
(dramatic music)
(drone motor buzzing)
- What the?
- Oh shit.
Fuck.
(drone motor revving)
(dramatic music)
(drone motor revving)
(dramatic music)
(drone motor revving)
(Kyra panting)
(drone motor revving)
(Kyra panting)
(dramatic music)
(drone motor revving)
Woah. In there.
(dramatic music)
(drone motor revving)
(dramatic music)
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
(drone motor revving)
(dramatic music)
[Experimenter] As you read in the report,
the experiment demonstrates how well
the implanted memories hold under stress.
In early cycles we wiped
all newly formed memories between tests
so that we could see what
memories would seep back through
and what would trigger them.
They did remember some things.
But only trivial things
from previous tests.
As you saw when he showed
them volunteering for the study,
they still didn't remember
who they really were.
Yes, it's encouraging.
But additional funding is
not in this year's budget.
There's a deficit.
It costs $90,000 a year
to incarcerate a person
on death row.
And there's currently
2,978 inmates on death row.
If you do the math, that's $268 million
a year.
But what if instead of that cost,
an inmate's identity could be replaced
with a memory implant?
They're released, they're
given a minimum wage job.
They're now costing the state nothing.
Instead they're paying taxes,
contributing to society.
It's like a prison chain gang,
without the prison and without the chain.
(dramatic music)
With a successful roll out,
eventually there will be no death row,
no prison industrial complex.
And that would please everyone in society,
bleeding hards and hardliners.
It's.
It's a perfect coalition.
It's still going to be a tough sell.
They were sentenced to die.
That's what the victim's families want.
True.
But if a murderer no longer
remembers who they are,
isn't that person in fact dead?
(dramatic music)
I'll leave you two to discuss the details.
(dramatic music)
What happened?
[Security] We found
the officer dead in a tunnel,
Zone Five.
Nev did this?
[Security] That's the
last video on his body cam.
[Guard] I'm in the East
Tunnel, the test subjects,
they appear dead.
I don't know what happened.
Do you copy?
(guard screaming)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra screaming)
(dramatic music)
[Experimenter] Kyra.
[Security] They removed
their kill-switch tracker.
Nev is helping her. He's on the run.
A drone showed them entering the mine.
What are your orders?
Sir?
Unleash the prototypes into the mine.
[Security] The protos?
But sir, the rock will block all signals.
We won't be able to control them in there.
(electronic beep)
[Experimenter] No need.
Default set the blinders to red,
no restraints.
They'll flush them out
or eliminate the problem.
[Security] Yes sir.
And tell no one about this, no one.
Yes sir.
(dramatic music)
(footsteps crunching)
[Nev] Hold it.
What the hell?
I think I might have been here before.
That means we're right back
to where we escaped from.
Maybe not.
This is an old mine.
They could be using it tying into it, but
this mine was here way before they were.
You could have easily
gone through another tunnel
and not even known it.
We need to find another way out.
Another way that
they're not gonna think of.
Gimme the light.
Why?
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
What is it?
This way.
[Nev] Now how do you
know it's this way, not this way?
'Cause the candy told you to?
[Kyra] Yes, I'm following the candy.
I remember this.
[Nev] I'll take that.
Hey, what do you remember?
(dramatic music)
(chains clanking)
(dramatic music)
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
(distorted footsteps crunching)
How the hell did this get here?
I think I did it sometime in a past test.
(distant clanking)
What the hell is that?
Let's go.
(dramatic music)
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra screaming)
Run.
No, this way.
(distorted footsteps crunching)
(Kyra's distorted voice) Kill your light.
(pro to heavy breathing)
(pro to yelling)
(dramatic music)
(both screaming)
(dramatic music)
(both panting)
Back up.
(dramatic music)
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
This way.
Come on.
Wait.
(dramatic music)
What?
Shh.
Listen.
(suspenseful music)
- Nothing.
- No.
Do you have any memory
of this place from a past test?
[Kyra] No.
You sure?
Good.
Then we might be going the right way.
(dramatic music)
Watch your step.
(dramatic music)
What?
[Kyra] That fish, it must
have gotten in here somehow.
That way.
(footsteps crunching)
(dramatic music)
(wind gushing)
We're on the other side of the mountain.
They'll never look for us here.
(dramatic music)
(wind gushing)
(drone motor revving)
Shit, there's another drone.
They're searching this area.
They'll find us.
(Nev groaning)
(dramatic music)
I'm sorry.
I need you to buy me some time.
Why?
You killed people,
you deserve it.
You killed babies.
Not me.
Sarah.
(dramatic music)
You'll never make it outta here alive.
You'll die out here, you hear me?
You hear?
(dramatic music)
(drone motor revving)
[Security] We've located
the Control, Zone 12.
He appears injured.
Request immediate medevac
and containment, over.
[Guard] Copy.
Team Victor, en route, will extract, over.
[Security] No sign
yet of the test subject.
Redirect all searching to
zones 12 through 15, over.
[Drone operator] Copy.
Redirecting all drone flight paths.
(dramatic music)
I sign, it's over.
[Experimenter] Yes, you passed the test.
I don't remember anything.
Short term memory loss
is one of the side effects
of the experiment.
Please just sign, Daniel.
Thank you.
(dramatic music)
When are they moving me outta here?
I'm afraid there was a
bit of miscommunication.
No.
I signed up.
I did it, I'm supposed to
receive a life sentence.
We had a deal.
[Experimenter] Guard.
I'm innocent.
That woman was dead when I found her.
I went into the water to save her.
I didn't do it.
Guard.
(door unlocking)
You got the wrong man.
For the sake of the
positive data, I hope not.
Come back.
You can't leave me here.
(door locking)
(drone motor revving)
(dramatic music)
(drone motor revving)
(dramatic music)
[Security] Test subject
located in Zone 13.
Request viper strike, over.
[Drone operator] Copy.
Nearest viper en route to coordinates.
(Kyra panting)
[Security] She's heading north on DR2.
(drone motor revving)
[Drone operator] Viper
has sighted the target.
(Kyra panting)
(drone motor revving)
Target in range.
Initiating Code Blue.
(drone motor revving)
[Experimenter] Why would you do that?
Bludgeon that guard to death
and stabbing Nev.
You can speak freely.
We're all alone here.
(suspenseful music)
Your violent behavior is quite disturbing.
You should not be capable.
You should have been more like John.
Where is John?
I wanna see him.
You want John?
Well, I can take anyone at any
time, put them in the machine
and create as many Johns
as you want, as I want.
In fact, that's what I plan on doing.
The John implant has had a
tremendous amount of success
and the positive results
need to be replicated.
You want to see John,
tell me why you attacked them.
It's your last chance.
(suspenseful music)
The guard?
He was going to capture me.
And Nev?
There was a drone
coming, I needed a distraction,
to get away, to survive.
Interesting.
What happened to all those implanted,
passive personality traits,
all those happy memories?
Happy memories?
You put us through hell again and again
through this torture.
How many times have you done this to us?
Yes, all the tests, all the
residual subconscious trauma,
all unfortunate side
effects of suppressing,
but still preserving who
you really are, Sarah,
makes it impossible to completely
wipe the slate clean every time.
But John was in the same implant group,
had the same latent memories of the test
and his results were successful.
(suspenseful music)
Unless,
this means he actually was innocent.
And if that's the case, then his success is
meaningless.
(suspenseful music)
No.
I have to thank you.
I now know what I need to do.
Stay the fuck away from me.
I will no longer
suppress the test subject's true identity.
I will insist that they are
eradicated completely.
It won't matter who they
were before, guilty, innocent,
it will make no difference.
They'll be gone.
There will be no more bleed through,
no more corrupted test results.
(Kyra screaming)
Whoa.
(dramatic music)
Okay.
I'm sorry, but,
there's no more hope for you.
(dramatic music)
You're just another corrupted reject.
(Kyra screaming)
And your implant is retired.
No.
(dramatic music)
No.
I don't wanna be Sarah.
Don't worry, I promise
you'll never have to be Sarah again.
And you'll be with John.
John.
(machine whining)
(rapid sonic pulses)
(alarm blaring)
(suspenseful music)
(chain rattling)
(suspenseful music)
(fire crackling)
(footsteps stomping)
(blinder electronic pulse)
Hey, what's going on?
How'd we get here?
(blinder electronic pulse)
(suspenseful music)
Can you hear me?
I'm John.
(suspenseful music)
(blinder electronic pulse)
(dramatic music)
John.
You gotta kill it.
What?
Choke it, use the chain.
(dramatic music)
No, I don't want to hurt her.
Her? It.
You gotta hurt it, if you wanna live.
(blinder electronic pulse)
(Kyra groaning)
(dramatic music)
(Kyra groaning)
Stick your fingers in its eyes.
Right into the sockets, blind it.
No, I can't.
Do you want to live?
Kill the pro to.
(Kyra screaming)
(Kyra scream echoing out)
(dramatic music)