[whooshing]
Mr. Kim, do you remember the situation from the past?
Or do you remember how you felt?
Did your wife remember the situation or the feelings she felt?
What's your purpose in doing this?
She talks about the situation because she can't forget how she felt.
If you're doubting,
that alone says you exist.
The same goes for Ms. Cha.
[door closes]
EP 4 - BEYOND THE MEMORIES
Mister...
What should I do?
My dad...
invited me to live with him.
[sniffles]
What do you mean?
Take a look at this.
[bell dings]
Peach.
Come on in.
This is your room.
I tried to decorate it, but you can change it the way you like.
Peach.
Won't you move in and live with me?
I prepared a lot of things for you. [bell dings]
I longed to hear these words from my dad
for a really long time.
Peach, this...
This is just an illusion.
An illusion made by your desperate desire.
I was always alone.
But now, it feels like I'm with my dad.
I can share my worries and whine like a baby,
and my dad will always say something that encourages me.
That never happened when he was alive.
This is not your real dad.
He's someone you created.
Who cares?
Peach. Look straight into my eyes.
You can't come here anymore.
[phone rings]
Wait.
[bell dings]
Jackpot! We got it!
Got what?
Dr. K contacted us.
He wants to meet right away.
He'll send us a virtual IP to meet him.
I'll be there.
Okay, I'll prepare for it.
Dr. K?
Yes, he agreed to an interview.
I think Dr. K knows everything.
We should continue later.
Is that okay?
Yes.
Let's talk later.
[digital sounds]
Hey, is this the latest model?
Do you have another one?
I wouldn't say so even if I did. Stop eyeing it.
You're so cheap.
Hey, Jae-hyun.
Hey. You can jump right in.
Lie down here,
and put these on.
Jae-hyun.
Limit your questions
and just let Dr. K ramble on. Okay?
[hologram sound]
[deep breath]
[rumbling]
[fast wind sound]
[bird chirping]
Do you know the name of this bird?
It's a zebra finch.
It's the first bird that learned how to sing by itself
when new memories were planted in it through optogenetics.
Please introduce yourself first.
Take a seat first.
I call myself a designer.
What kind of designer?
Aren't you Dr. Jang Jin-ho who died?
I design the life after death.
This thing you claim to design...
Isn't it what religions define as heaven?
Yes, that's exactly it.
Brain scientist Jang Jin-ho died and made heaven.
Isn't this a pseudo-religion?
I don't care what people call it.
For 50,000 years, over 100 billion people died and disappeared from earth.
But not a single person returned to tell us a heaven exists.
Then, where is this heaven humans have been believing in?
That doesn't mean you have the right to design a heaven.
They're planning to construct a new world on Mars in face of earth's global warming.
Then, can a new world only form on Mars?
If we can look forward to the future after death,
and if there's a place we think would be marvelous,
isn't that exactly the place we dream of?
The final destination for science is the invention of heaven.
As for me, exploring Yonder is the beginning of that.
"Yonder"?
What is "Yonder"?
Your wife also chose to get euthanized, right?
Why do you think she chose VRorphin?
Because
she imagined a detailed future after her death.
You met her at BY N BY. Was that real or a dream?
You're interviewing me right now,
but am I a dream or am I real?
Does this bird in the cage look real?
[wings buzzing]
Where did the bird go?
Where did the bird in your memory go?
Are you saying that's Yonder?
Yes, it's a place called Yonder.
Then, are you from Yonder?
[starts laughing]
Let's stop here for today.
[laughter]
[light swooshing]
[mysterious music intensifies]
[digital cracking sound]
What on earth is "Yonder"?
Isn't it the same thing as BY N BY?
No.
Yi-hoo isn't at that place.
[phone rings]
Jae-hyun, you better come over.
What is it? Did something happen?
If anyone
finds my body,
please contact Kim Jae-hyun.
Mister. I'm sorry I couldn't keep our promise.
I'm doing this because I have conviction.
She was already in a coma when I arrived.
We found this on Peach too.
How could they give VRorphin to someone so young?
Do you mean
she imagined life after death and left for Yonder?
Jae-hyun, do you think Yonder really exists?
I think Peach went there too.
Yonder is the problem.
There's more behind Dr. K. I'm sure of it.
Let's go.
[distant siren sound]
Singer Kim Eun-hee who once won an audition show
but has stopped releasing albums
was found dead in a car in the parking lot of Han River.
Some claim the chain of suicide cases are related to Dr. K,
causing a big social stir.
[woman singing]
Do you know her?
I met her with Peach.
She frequented a place called BY N BY.
She told me she had to go see her dead mom.
[keyboard typing]
I found it. Look.
It's an academic group of brain scientists formed by Dr. Jang.
They succeeded in uploading brains.
"Gathering of brain scientists who think of the result"?
[keyboard typing]
When they were uploading the memory of Dr. Jang's daughter,
a brain nerve was damaged and she fell into a coma.
But the bigger problem
was that they had no way of communicating with the memory data they downloaded.
And?
In order to communicate with her brain,
he decided to go to the same place and be in the same condition as her.
[eerie music]
Do you mean Dr. Jang chose to become brain dead?
That means they died together.
[keyboard typing]
The metaverse where late Dr. Jang and his daughter communicates
was given the name Yonder.
Zoom in on this picture.
Do you know this woman?
Seiren.
Jae-hyun.
She's Dr. Jang's wife.
The one spearheading the Yonder project.
[phone rings]
The editor is calling.
Put him on.
Hey, Jae-hyun. Your interview is getting a lot of traffic.
Go to our website and look at the community menu.
Our server is going to crash.
If it's this popular,
we better publish a follow-up.
They all want to go to Yonder.
Huh? What is this? Jang Jin-ho?
I'D LIKE TO REPORT A VIDEO OF DR. JANG FROM BEFORE HE PASSED!
[guitar strumming]
[sings nostalgic song]
It's a video of his daughter's funeral from five years ago.
Those who committed suicide left their bodies behind
and left for Yonder.
Does that also mean...
other people who go to BY N BY
might kill themselves too?
There's one person I can think of.
My youngest son sent me this mail.
Dad, my school is on a break this week.
Honey, I cooked some grilled ribs and we missed you while eating it.
Dad, I played catch with him
but he throws too hard. Can you scold him?
Boo!
How are you sure your family is at Yonder?
There might be no world like Yonder,
and all of this might be a ridiculous lie.
But isn't it just a matter of belief?
Jae-hyun, aren't you curious how your wife is doing?
I'm not curious.
I have nothing left for me here, so I have nothing to lose.
[calm music]
If you miss something,
then you must miss it.
If you feel sad,
then you must be sad.
[sad song plays]
I don't think
you're someone honest about feelings.
At first,
there was only a small house, a lake surrounded by mountains,
and a trail in the forest.
What about now?
It's no different from this world.
Though it's not enough yet.
Is that why you decided to promote Yonder through Dr. K?
That's right. Yonder is a world with much more potential than here.
Why didn't you
go to your daughter and husband?
I'll go when the time comes.
Your wife is waiting for you.
[whooshing]
You said there's a door
one cannot close on their own, right?
Yes.
And that one day,
someone will come to close it.
Yes. Why?
For you,
is that person me?
I'm afraid you'll fade away from my memory.
That's because
you don't remember your feelings.
I remember all of them.
What if...
I completely forget about you?
It's okay.
I'll remember everything.
[soothing song plays]
I'll probably die early.
Why?
Because I'll get cancer.
What are you saying? No one dies from cancer now.
There's such a gene.
If we find it fast enough, I guess it'll be easily removed.
But it'll continue to be found all over my body.
Then one day, it will go out of control.
I was born unlucky like that.
Why are you worried about something that didn't happen?
Don't worry.
My mom passed away that way too.
"Because poor me"
"loved the beautiful Natasha,"
"the snow"
"will pour down tonight"!
[breathes heavily]
Don't.
"Let's go deep into the mountains."
Don't!
"Let's go deep into the woods"
"and live in a hut."
I'm not scared of this place anymore.
I'm not in pain either.
What is Yonder?
[mysterious music]
The place I'm at.
Where is that?
The place
where you're not.
[whooshing]
It's up to the individual to make the decision.
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