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(♪)
STANFIELD: Giving one man that which he wants to see
isn't worth the pain inflicted on another.
(LIGHTER CLICKING)
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.
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
(CHAIR SCRAPES)
And his assassination, too?
Not interested in memories from that day.
I have his wife's.
STANFIELD: Oh, I know.
But do you have his?
HARVEY: 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.
(TAKES A DRAG)
His killer?
Which one?
(♪)
- How much? - 100 million.
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
But that's not what I want for it.
(CLEARS THROAT)
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.
STANFIELD: A Bible verse?
What Bible verse?
- (DOOR ALARM BUZZES) - (DOOR OPENS)
(DOOR SHUTS)
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
(♪)
(GUNSHOT)
ELI: 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.
(♪)
(DOOR BUZZES)
(DOOR SHUTS)
(INDISTINCT CHATTERS IN BACKGROUND)
Tariq?
Morning, Elizeus.
(SNAPS FINGERS)
TARIQ: What am I supposed to do with this?
Whatever people do with them.
Oh.
Never seen these before in real life.
(CHUCKLES)
TARIQ: Thank you, Eli.
(DRAWER RATTLE)
(SNAPS FINGERS)
- GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL 1 (ON FOOTAGE): - The secrecy angered us,
some of us who still believe and some of them who don't.
Almost like nothing changed.
TARIQ: 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.
TARIQ: 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?
(DOOR OPENS, SQUEAKS)
(SIREN BLARES)
(DOOR OPENS, SQUEAKS)
(SIREN CONTINUES BLARING)
(♪)
(DOOR OPENS, SQUEAKS)
NEWSCASTER 1: (ON TV) 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--
MCCARTHY: Carrier.
NEWSCASTER 1: (ON TV) But this pattern raises serious--
MCCARTHY: Keeper Morrison was lecturing at university this morning.
(LIGHTER CLINKS)
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.
(CAR REACHES)
Thing is, it doesn't, um,
have a Keeper anymore.
(SIGHS)
Mr. President.
PRESIDENT DAVID: 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?
(FOOTSTEPS)
(DOOR OPENS)
(SIGHS)
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.
(♪)
MARIE: 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.
(CROWD CHEERING)
No more hiding.
(CROWD CHEERING)
NEWSCASTER 2: (ON TV) 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.
NEWSCASTER 2: (ON TV) It is expected to sway millions of voters.
Mm-mm.
NEWSCASTER 2: (ON TV) Particularly in the nation's remaining religious states.
It shall not be known.
NEWSCASTER 2: (ON TV) So its impact is likely to resonate far beyond
(INDISTINCT SPEECH)
(TAKES A DEEP BREATH)
ELI: 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.
(PAPER RUSTLE)
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
I knew your mother.
MARIE: (ON TV) 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...
TARIQ: Gotta give it to your sister.
She makes exciting promises.
You gonna vote for her?
I don't vote.
MARIE: (ON TV) 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?
(CHUCKLES)
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?
(CLICKS)
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.
(♪)
(BEEPS)
(♪)
(GUN CLICK, SHOT)
(♪)
Keep your eyes down.
(BEEPS)
Let's go.
(♪)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(♪)
(SIGHS)
(THUDS)
(♪)
1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 6, 7.
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
(♪)
(UNLOCKS DOOR)
Eli, what are you doing here?
I was just nearby,
and I, uh, wanted to see if you were feeling better.
Yeah. (CHUCKLES)
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.
(BEEPS)
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.
(GRUNTING)
(GRUNTING CONTINUES)
(BEEPS)
(PANTING)
(TAKES DEEP BREATHS)
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.
(INDISTINCT SPEECH)
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.
- MCCARTHY: 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.
(SIGHS)
You can go and you can leave it on the desk.
(SIGHS)
Memory file access request.
I don't have my badge on me.
Chief McCarthy just sent me directly here.
Open up!
(DOOR ALARM BUZZES)
(♪)
(TIRES MURMUR)
(♪)
Hey, fellas. How's it going?
- What's good? - See the manifest?
Thanks. Hot out, huh?
- AGENT 2: Mm-hmm. - Yeah.
Just wanna take one last look at, uh, Kowalski.
- Open up. - That's not standard procedure--
Only take a minute.
(LOCK CLINKS)
(DOOR SQUEAKS, THUDS)
(♪)
(EXHALES)
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.
(DOOR SQUEAKS)
(LIGHTER CLICKS)
(TAKES DEEP BREATHS)
(♪)
(RUSTLES)
(♪)
(PANTING)
Where'd you get this?
Answer me!
Your mother gave it to me.
She wanted me to know.
Know what?
HARVEY: 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.
(DOOR, LOCK CLANG)
(♪)
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.
(EXHALES)
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?
(DOOR OPENS, CREAKS)
(♪)
(DOOR SHUTS)
(♪)
(FOOTSTEPS)
(♪)
PRESIDENT DAVID: 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.
PRESIDENT DAVID: 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.
(♪)
(SNIFFLES)
(CLOCK DINGS)
(SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE)
- NEWSCASTER 1 (ON TV): - 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.
(FOOTSTEPS REACHING)
MARIE: 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.
(CHUCKLES)
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.
(SIGHS) 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.
(SIGHS)
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.
(DOOR OPENS, SHUTS)
(♪)
Okay.
(CAMERAMEN CLICKING PICTURES)
(♪)
NEWSCASTER 1: (ON TV) 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.
(♪)
(LIGHTER CLINKS)
(♪)
NEWSCASTER 2: (ON TV) 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--
ELI: Noor.
NEWSCASTER 2: (ON TV) We noticed an increase in the public's criticism over--
ELI: Noor.
NEWSCASTER 2: (ON TV) 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.
(CHEERING, CLAPPING)
NEWSCASTER 1: (ON TV) 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?
(CLAMORING)
(CLAMORING CONTINUES)
And it looks like we have some breaking news.
- NEWSCASTER 1: - We are now officiallyprojecting the winner
of this historical presidential race.
(CHEERING, CLAPPING)
(YELLING)
CROWD MEMBER: She won!
(CHEERING)
(♪)
(CROWD CHEERING)
(♪)
(CROWD CLAPPING, CHEERING)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy once said,
"The greater our knowledge increases,
the more our ignorance unfolds."
I disagree.
(CHEERING)
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.
(CROWD CHEERS)
(LEAVES RUSTLING)
(♪)
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.
(CROWD CLAMORING)
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.
(TAKES A DEEP BREATH)
They're making their way here, sir.
(YELLING)
MARIE: 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!
MARIE: 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!
(CHEERING)
(PANTING)
(CHEERING CONTINUES)
May God bless you.
And God bless the United States of America!
(FIRE CRACKLING)
(PANTING)
ELI: Is it true?
If anybody finds out that she lied...
(TAKES DEEP BREATHS)
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.
(GUNSHOT IN BACKGROUND)
(SIREN BLARING)
NEWSCASTER 2: (ON TV) President-elect Marie Carrier secures an--
ELI: Noor.
NEWSCASTER 2: (ON TV) Overwhelming 84% of the popular vote,
managing to flip key swing states like
Pennsylvania and Illinois.
And unlike any other election--
Noor.
NEWSCASTER 2: (ON TV) Reporting on this year's vote count
feels almost trivial considering--
Excuse me a minute.
NEWS CASTER 2: (ON TV)...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--
(♪)
(SIGHS)
(♪)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER IN BACKGROUND)
(INDISTINCT SPEECH)
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.
(♪)
(WAVES CRASHING)
(♪)
(RUSTLES)
(♪)
(WAVES CRASHING)
(♪)
(WATER SPLATTERS)
(GASPING)
(KISSES)
(♪)
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.
(TRAIN CHUGGING)
(♪)
(WHOOSHES)
(WATER SPLASHES)
- (GRUNTS) - (CHOKES)
(COUGHS, GROANS)
(PANTING)
(CHUCKLES)
And you might not be able to tell,
but I was a very popular girl back then.
ELI: 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. (CHUCKLES)
Mama's boy.
(MARIE CHUCKLES)
(SLURPS, COUGHS)
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?
MARIE: 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--
ELI: 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.
(CHUCKLES)
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.
(SLURPS)
Hmm.
(CHUCKLES)
What do you wanna do when you grow up?
Hmm?
(GLASS CLINKS)
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.
- (DOOR OPENS) - Cheers.
(GLASSES CLINK)
(DOOR SHUTS)
(BOTH SLURP)
(♪)
(BIRDS CHIRPING, LEAVES RUSTLING)
(♪)
(LIGHTER CLICKING)
(♪)
(DRAWER RATTLE)
(♪)
(TRAIN WHOOSHING, CHUGGING)
(LIGHTER CLICKS)
(♪)
FREEMAN: 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.
(♪)
(STATIC)
No one should see this.
No one can fathom what's in here.
But I need you to try.
(♪)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER IN BACKGROUND)
(SLURPS, GULPS)
MCCARTHY: 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.
(DOOR SQUEAKS)
Memory of Origins.
MCCARTHY: 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?
ELI: 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.
(TAKES A DEEP BREATH)
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.
(LAUGHS)
- Please, please. - MCCARTHY: 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--
(DOOR OPENS, SHUTS)
(♪)
(WAVES CRASHES, WATER RIPPLING)
(♪)
(DOOR CREAKS)
(SIGHS)
(♪)
(SLURPS)
You just gonna sit there?
Ominously.
(CLEARS THROAT)
I don't even remember this.
(GIGGLES)
Did she talk to you?
She told me.
And?
(MARIE SIGHING)
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.
ELI: 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.
(TAKES A DEEP BREATH)
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.
MARIE: 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.
(SCOFFS)
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.
(SIGHS)
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.
(♪)
(FOOTSTEPS)
You had her all wrong.
(♪)
(CLOCK DINGING)
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.
(SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE)
(CLOCK RINGS)
(CLEARS THROAT)
(DOOR OPENS, SQUEAKS)
(DOOR SHUTS)
GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL 2: 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.
GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL 2: State your name and occupation for the record.
Elizeus Carrier, Chief of Department of Memory.
GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL 2: 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.
GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL 2: 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.
GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL 2: 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.
GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL 2: 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.
(EXHALES)
(PRINTER WHIRS)
(♪)
Call it off!
(♪)
(PRINTER WHIRRING)
(GASPS)
(SIGHS)
(♪)
(SOBS)
(THUMPS)
(GIGGLES)
No!
(SOBBING)
(GIGGLING)
(♪)
(PRINTER WHIRRING)
(BIRDS, CRICKETS CHIRPING)
(TIRES MURMUR)
(♪)
MARIE: 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.
(CAMERAS CLICKING)
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.
(CROWD YELLING)
(♪)
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.
(♪)
(DOOR SQUEAKS)
NOOR: When is he coming back?
I don't know.
(SIGHS)
(DOOR OPENS, SQUEAKS)
(SIGHS)
(DOOR SHUTS)
(GULPS)
(SIGHS)
Send her in.
(DOOR CREAKS, SQUEAKS)
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.
FREEMAN: I mean legal repercussions.
From us.
Let him know that we still want to talk to him,
if you hear from him.
Madam President.
(DOOR OPENS, SQUEAKS)
(DOOR SHUTS)
Is it true?
Did you really wanna show this to the world?
Didn't think so.
(SIGHS)
(♪)
(FIRE CRACKLING)
(♪)
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.
(♪)
(CLEARS THROAT)
(TAKES A DEEP BREATH)
(♪)