"Priority no 1, finding out what cause of this." "Priority no 2, is figuring out whether or not it'll happen again." "Our experiment killed 20 million people." "We have to go public and tell the world that we cause the blackout." "D. Gibbons was on the phone with somebody else during the blackout." "He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over." "D. Gibbons escaped." "We got his cell phone and a white queen." "I love you Zoe even if my parents don't." "I didn't have a flashforward because I'm gonna be dead." "I know what I saw." "The beach." "Our wedding." "I know you were there." "You said you didn't wanna give up hope." "Then don't." "Our wiretapping programme intercepted a phone call to a bureau cell phone." "On March 15th, 2010, you are going to be murdered." "You're not going to Hong Kong, end of story." " We're going." " Wedeck's gonna be pissed." "He'll get over it." "I am here to warn you tonight that there is yet a chance and a hope of you escaping for my fate, a chance and a hope of my securing, Ebenezer, your freedom in the afterlife." "Tonight, you will be haunted by three spirits." "Er, is that the chance and hope you mentioned?" "It is." "Without their visits, you cannot hope to shun the path I've tread." "Expect the first tomorrow when the bell tolls one." "Expect the second on the next night, about the same hour." "Expect the third on the next night, when the last stroke of 12 ceases to vibrate." "You really think we can find the woman who called me?" "Linguists expect your caller is Iranian, specifically from Tehran." "London educated." "How many western Persian speaking women with that kind of accent could that be in Hong Kong?" "We're gonna find her, Dem." "We're going all the way." "Come on." "You really should answer your cell." "It's your boss calling." "Marshall Vogel, FBI legate office, Hong Kong." "Did you really think you were just gonna stroll in without immigration flagging your arrival?" " Mark Benford." "This is..." " Agent Demetri Noh." "Badge number 4587, born February 17th, 1977." "Potentially murdered, March 15th, 2010." "Gentlemen, I know all about Agent Noh's mystery woman and I know why you're looking for." "This is a sovereign territory of communist China, a country that ours believes was responsible for the blackout." "So you're here to offer help is what you're saying." "Go home, is what I'm saying." "If you catch the first flight back, your jobs might actually still be there waiting for you." "Unless you're willing to arrest us, I think we'll take our chances." "Hi, cupcake." "What part of "stay the hell out of Hong Kong"" "did you two idiots not understand?" "Understand, Al Gough did a half-gainer off the building you're currently standing in to prove to us the future can be changed." " You two are disobeying a direct order!" " By the way, I lied to Demetri." "I told him you changed your mind about us coming out here." "Merry Christmas." " Why'd you tell him you lied to me?" " 'Cause if things go south, you're definitely gonna need to keep carrying a gun." ""We're live here in Palo Alto, where sources are claiming a major announcement will be made concerning the causes of the global blackout."" "Thank you for attending this press conference." "My name is Gordon Myhill." "I am the director of the National Linear Accelerator Project." "Today we have some important information concerning the events" " of Oct 6th that we feel needs to be share..." " You know that they're gonna crucify us." "What's a little martyrdom between friends?" "Just make sure you stick to the points we discussed with Myhill." "The last thing we need is your guilty conscience dragging us down any further." "What the hell does that mean?" "You feel guilty because your wife died in the blackout, I get it." "Now you have to take care of your son, boom!" "." "I won't let you drag me down into your spiral shame just because you're playing Mr Mum." " Understood?" " I'd like to introduce you now to our associate directors of the Plasma-Wakefield Programme," "Dr Lloyd Simcoe and Dr Simon Campos." "Good, good morning." "My name is Lloyd Simcoe." "As Dr Myhill indicated, our speciality is proton-driven plasma-wakefield acceleration." "What we're trying to do in this facility is to reproduce the kind of energy levels that existed just after the Big Bang on a much more controllable scale." "We were conducting just such an experiment here on... ..October the 6th, at precisely 1100 hours Pacific Daylight Time." "Please, please!" "If you could just wait for a moment, I will take questions in a minute." "Please." "I just need to get to the heart of the matter." "Er, we are here today because we believe that the global blackout was precipitated by our experiment." "Please, please." "If you just give me a moment," "I will take questions in a minute." "Please, one moment..." "Are you taking responsibility for all the death and damage caused by the blackout?" "We admit that our experiment does seem the most likely cause, yes." "But we contend that there was no way to predict anything like this happening whatsoever." "This was utterly unforeseeable." "Scientists conducted experiment all the time." "We specifily cannot stop that experiments because we are not 100% sure of the results..." "It these guys cause the blackout what's that mean for Mosaic?" "Game over?" "Maybe Simcoe caused the blackout..." "Maybe he didn't." "Game's not over." "And lab will be releasing an official statement regarding this event." "We will be concluding this." "We will now be concluding..." "Please." "Please believe me when I say that our hearts go out to anyone who was hurt or lost someone they cared for." "My own wife was killed." "And I would give anything to have her back." "We understand people are scared of thinking there's going to be another blackout." "There won't be because we were the cause!" "And we assure you...we assure you that this could not happen again because of this moment, all plasma-wakefield experiments are being put on hold indefinitely." "You didn't even apologise!" "You killed my family!" "Idiot." "We talked about having suspicions, about our work contributing to a phenomenon." "We needed to be more definitive." "There is no we." "You made that clear." "You lost all objectivity." "Yeah and you're wilfully ignoring your wish just to save your own skin." "It's about collecting empirical evidence and until we can prove empirically that we were the cause of this" "I'm not gonna flush my life down the toilet!" "I do not think we were to blame for this, you do!" "And if you will not see my line of reasoning, it's all at war between us." " Whoa." "What happened to your TV?" " Those scientists." "I want them in here yesterday." "I want to debrief them." "You and seven billion other people." "They both disappeared within ten minutes of their announcement." "Simon Campos is completely off our radar." "Lloyd Simcoe, he had a ticket for a flight to DC that left San Francisco within an hour of his speech." "We just found out he wasn't on the plane." "Wait." "Simcoe." "I knew I heard that name before." "How and why, Janice?" "When I was in the hospital, I overheard Olivia Benford talking about Dylan Simcoe." "He was a patient that they were treating." "And according to this he's Lloyd Simcoe's son." "Then you're going to Angeles Hospital to wait for him to check on his boy." "We don't have any basis for an arrest, though." "Right." "This is you." "One agent reaching out." "That's it." " We need to know what he knows." " Okay." "Oh, hey, have you spoken to Mark or Demetri?" "Yeah." "That's what happened to the TV." ""You've reached the Nohs." "Leave a message." Mrs Noh." "This is it." "This will be the last time I ask you." "You're the parents of the man that I love." "I want you at our wedding." "'In the future that I saw, you were there and if you say you'll go, it makes it real.'" "I'm supposed to marry Demetri and I hope to God that this is the message I'm supposed to send so that you go." "I love your son more than anything in this world and, ma'am, he loves me." "Can you just please help us be together?" "You're early." "Hi." "Well, you know, I'm trying to make senior partner one day, too." "You going to the memorial tonight?" "I know you didn't know Joyce well." "She was so friendly and so kind to me, so of course." "I wouldn't miss it." " See you then." " Yes." "Okay." "This is it." "Audio forensics gave us a three-mile radius of where the call was placed." "But there are a bunch of good reasons why we might find Eartha" " right here." " Eartha?" "Well, she kind of sounds like Eartha Kitt, don't you think?" "What?" "You know, the Batman TV show." "She played Catwoman." "You're right." "She does sound like Eartha Kitt." "Yeah." "A Persian, well-educated Eartha Kitt." "Listen, there's only two news stands within a block of here that sell Persian newspapers." "There's maybe a stretch but there's a place around the corner that sells Iranian cigarettes." "That voice, you know, it's a pretty good bet she smokes." "What?" "Mmm-hmm." "Farsi for the tide in the mist." "Persian woman, Persian food." "Yahtzee." " Tomorrow?" " Tomorrow." "Ah, forget it." "What?" "I've just never been surveilled before." "I'm not surveilling you." "It feels like I'm being surveilled." "Well, I could split, if you just slide me Lloyd Simcoe's phone number." "Okay." "And what do I do after I get fired?" "A girl's gotta try." "Dr Benford said that you came in while I was away." " How'd it go?" " She says I'm doing good." "Not good enough to have a baby yet." " You wanna have a baby?" " I didn't... ..but then the blackout happened and I saw myself getting a sonogram." "I was pregnant." "I was totally crazy." "It was like being in love or something." "I don't know." "Maybe I'll just listen to the universe and throw the towel in on the whole thing." "Listen." "In your flash forward, you saw yourself pregnant." "If you were really listening to the universe, you'd be trying to have that baby." " Do you know how far along you were?" " The sonographer said four months." "The beginning of January." "If that's what you saw, that's..." "When I'm supposed to get pregnant." " You still wanna get pregnant?" " Yeah" "Then don't, give up." "".." "Suharto." "Simcoe and Campos killed more people than all of those monsters combined."" ""There's a real good case to be made here." "You've got the biggest mass murderers in history."" " "Why aren't they in jail?"" " Wedeck." " "They haven't broken any laws."" " He's..." " "What about criminal negligence?"" " And no-one...?" ""..20 million people."" " Yes." " "There needs to be a trial."" ""Simcoe went to Harvard, 1998." "He got his PhD."" "So you're here to turn yourself in?" "I'm not sure what we did could be construed as a crime, even if it were proven we were responsible." "I do not believe we caused the blackout." "Well, you probably shouldn't have stood up in front of crowd of reporters and said you did." " Not my choice." " Hmm." "Lloyd Simcoe tends to let his emotions run rampant." "I don't." "Any idea who is responsible then?" "No." "But I'm saying if you allowed me access to your Mosaic investigation, I'd could divine the answer for you." "So you wanna be deputised." "I've served on three panels with the National Science Foundation," "I have security clearance." "You're confusing me with someone who gives a damn." "I'm up for giving you a lesson, not a new career." "How long do you think Washington will continue to fund an investigation into what caused the blackout when somebody has already stepped forward and accepted the blame?" "My guess is unless you come up with some compelling evidence relatively soon, you'll never find out what or who caused the greatest global catastrophe in human history or if we can prevent it from happening again." "How about this." "You come back tomorrow morning, I'll have something to show you, we make some progress," "I'll see what I can do about an official role." "Because I do like you, Assistant Director Wedeck,... ..I will accept your disingenuous offer." ""# Dashing through the snow"" " "# In a one-horse open sleigh"" " How dare he come in here." "He's here." " Did you charter a flight?" " Excuse me?" "I'm Agent Janis Hawk with the Mosaic task force." " Are you here to arrest me?" " Come in and talk to us." "We need information and you need some protection." "I'm sorry." "My son's safety is my priority right now and if you've connected me to him, it won't be long before others do as well." "So, I have to get him out of here immediately." "Let us help you." "Please." "It gonna be an opportunity..." "I maybe glad about this but I'm not interested, okay?" "Just leave us alone." "We're looking for a friend." "She works around here, maybe eats at this restaurant." "We don't have a picture but we have a recording of her voice." "So why don't if you take a listen and let us know if you recognise it." "Sure." ""I am sorry, there is no delicate way to say this, but on March 15th 2010, you are going to be murdered."" "I'm sorry." "I would remember that voice if I knew who it belonged to." "Now, how about some dessert?" " Sure, thank you." " Okay." "Yeah, I saw it." "Stand outside." "Make sure no one comes in." ""Ho-ho-ho!" "Merry Christmas!"" "Okay." "Some faludeh." " Thank you." " Your friend?" "Stepped outside." "Hey, sit down, join me." "The, er,... woman we're looking for, she has information we need." "It's a matter of life and death." "I'm so sorry." "I can't help you with that." "You have it backwards." "If you can't help, you will be sorry." "You know that woman." "Not so long ago, a hotel concierge named Anush Harandi, an Iranian man, much like yourself, was taken from his home in Bangkok in the middle of the night because my government believed he had some small piece of information." "His friends, his family, no one knew what happened to him." "He spent two years in secret detention." "My, erm, government's gotten very good at that sort of thing." " Her name is Nhadra Udaya." " You get her name?" "She comes here on the weekends but almost every night she has a late dinner at a dim sum place two blocks down." "Now we just have to get her to talk." "One way or another." "Hey, why didn't you want me in there?" "I'm trying to protect you, Dem." "If someone's hands are gonna get dirty, let it be mine." "We've given these to our top-level analysts." "They haven't been able to tell us anything useful about it." "Well, it's a good thing I'm smarter than they are." "These are highly-classified images so we've obscured anything that indicates where they were taken." "Somalia." "The dip slopes in the overlying limestone, the orientation of the flora, the shallow waters..." "Just tell us what you see." " Are you taking the piss?" " Tell us what you see." "Zoom in, please." "Yep." "I designed that." "That is a specialised post laser for a plasma afterburner." "It increases the rate of acceleration for traditional radio frequency machines." "The concept should win me a Nobel in a couple of years." "I must say, the modelling software you guys use is incredibly impressive." "The structure almost looks real." "Hm." "That is a real structure." "And that is a real photograph." "That's not possible." "The technology doesn't exist yet." "We're still running numerical simulations." "When did you come up with the idea for the laser?" "'92." "Why?" "Well, that photograph was taken in 1991." "That... doesn't make sense." "Who else could've come up with this idea?" "No one." "Your unparalleled genius act is wearing thin." "That's not what I mean." "Look, you ask any great scientific mind what they want to achieve and the only honest answer is immortality." "If you discover something that changes the world, you live forever." "So whoever designed this not only had to be brilliant but didn't even care about being famous." "Didn't want it." "Practically fetishised their anonymity." " A recluse." "A paranoid." " Exactly." "We believe this man was somehow connected to the blackout." "This is a composite sketch made by our field agents." "We know that at least he's awake during the blackout and he may have been in contact with another person who was also awake." "We don't even know his real name yet." "But he's using the alias "D Gibbons"." "He's highly efficient in advance computing equipment and particle-physics simulation." "Apparantly he's been hacking into a number of high-tech facilities.'" "He also seems to have a penchant for chess." "Hmm..." "A techie, chess-playing social-misfit physicist." "Well, that should narrow it down." "Have you ever seen him before, at conferences or lectures?" "No." "But if he had anything to do with the blackout," "I'll do everything I can to help you find him." "The very least I'd like to give his testicles a squeeze for shocking my plasma-afterburner design." "I need to find somewhere where my son can be safe." "Southland University Hospital." "That's less secure than this hospital." "Maybe I'm not making myself clear." "You don't seem very good at that." "No." "I beg your pardon?" "The announcement this morning." "You said that you caused the blackout, and then you said that you didn't mean to." "It was all kind of a jumble." "In my experience, innocent people tend to speak in specifics." "No." "No, no." "I spoke in specifics." "I related a series of facts, and " "Southland University Hospital." "I can transfer your son there." "Do you want me to put it through?" "No." "I want " "I need you to find a secure facility for my son." "Let's try Travers." "It's a private children's hospital in Glendale." "I doubt they'll have any beds." "They will when I make a call." "Get that started, and I'll draw up a transfer note." "Be back in an hour." "I don't suppose I can expect anyone to help me much in forsiable future." "You need help, I'll help you." ""And I, John, saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband."" "We are here tonight to say a final goodbye to Joyce." "You saw me there." "Yeah!" "Um..." "No." "But I'm positive you were." "Joyce's death is a tragic loss." "We've lost a daughter, a wife, a friend." "But what we must remember, what we must hold in our hearts..." "Looks like we found her." "Okay..." " You shouldn't have come here." " You called me, remember?" "That was a mistake, clearly." "You being here now will set things in motion that will end very badly for you." "Can we just skip over the histrionic action-movie cliches?" "Cause I'm way too jet-lagged to deal with any of that right now." "Tell me who you are." "I can't." "I was trying to warn you." "You don't even know me." "Why do you care if I live or die?" "Your death is the first in a long line of dominos that I would rather not see fall down." "So help us stop it from happening." " I can't." " You can by telling us." "If I tell you more, the act of telling you may end up bring about the unfortunate incident we are all trying to avoid." "I'm willing to take that risk." "I said you would be shot three times." "Shots at close range." "Which means I probably know my killer." "In fact, you do." "He's sitting at this table right now." "You, Agent Benford." "You will kill Agent Noh on March 15th, with the very gun I assume you're carrying right now." "A SIG-Sauer model P226." "In the call you said you didn't know who killed me." "Now you said you do." "I lied because I didn't want to bring about the incident which I told you about." "How could you possibly know?" "A, 5, 6, 1, 9, 8, 4." "And, er, what is that?" "The serial number of your gun." "It will be your gun, Agent Benford, and you will pull the trigger." "And then again, and then again." "You could've found the serial number a different way." "You could have hacked into the Bureau's gun registry." "Agent Noh... how many times have you interrogated a suspect?" "Look into my eyes." "Your partner is going to kill you, intentionally." "Why would I do that, hmm?" "Why?" "Presumably, in the next few months, a reason will present itself." " Now, you've got what you've come for." " No, I have more question." "I am done giving you answers." "It's time for you to leave." "Don't." "You're coming with us, right now!" "Move, move!" "Move!" "What are we doing?" "Cover me!" " Down the stairs, now!" "Down!" " Come on, come on, come on!" " Which way?" " Trust me, I've got it!" "Back off, now!" "Put the gun down!" "Hey Mark." "This woman is a material witness to a murder." "There has been no murder." " But there will be." " Will there, Agent Benford?" " Let her go." " Mark." "Nhadra, have your men lower their guns, now." "All the way down!" "This isn't over." "It never is." "Put your hands behind your back." "Mr Simcoe." "Hey." "I have those transfer papers." " Sorry for all the red tape." " I appreciate it." "Especially after the inconvenience I've caused you and your family." "You didn't do anything wrong." "Are you ready to get Dylan checked out?" "Yep." "You really think there won't be another blackout?" "Not unless we recreate the exact conditions of our experiment, no." "It was an incredibly brave thing you did, coming forward like that, taking responsibility." "I think the line between brave and stupid's a pretty blurry one." "Oh, I didn't say it wasn't stupid." " So, you went to Harvard in '98?" " Yeah." "It was one of the best times of my life." "I was doing my doctorate." "I had this beautiful apartment above a cigar shop." "Levitt and Pierce?" " Yeah, that's the one." " I was supposed to go to Harvard in '98, and I was gonna live in the building next door." "So, why didn't you?" "Because Mark got his job with the Bureau and he was gonna be transfered to Los Angeles, so I decided to be with him instead." "My wife moved into that building." "That's how I met her." "Wow." "So, er..." "So, if I had gone, we probably would have met." "Have you heard of the many-worlds interpretation?" "No." "It was coined by a physicist called Hugh Everett in the '50s." "Basically the idea is, anything that could have happened in our past actually did happen in some other universe." "All those alternate decisions and choices you made are still playing themselves out in another world." "If you buy the theory, I suppose, in some other universe," " you did go to Harvard." " Hmm." "And we did meet." "Of course, that's not the world we live in." "Nope." "Thank you again for this." "Sure." "You're both very lucky men." "I saved your lives, helped you avoid an international incident." "Why are you keeping us from her?" "You don't need to know what Nhadra knows." "Let me get you on your flight, okay." "Just a friendly service Legats provides." "You're not Legats." "If you were Bureau, you never would have let us get off the plane." "And after what went down in that alley, this whole thing stinks like a company job." "We prefer the term "Central Intelligence Agency."" "I hate to break it to you, but Mosaic is bigger than you." "Bigger than the FBI." "Bigger than any one country intelligence organisation." "You're just a... a tiny spec, Mark." "A flake of dandruff on the nape of this thing's neck." "But if it will make you feel better... to take a swing at me, then go right ahead." "It's not like you've got anything else to lose." "That call, I would take." ""You know what I'm staring at?"" "I'm watching the security camera feed of your amazing food screw in Hong Kong." " Stan." " Shut up!" "It was sent to me by the damn US Ambassador to China." "So I'm calling to congratulate you." "You've succeeded in changing the future." "Yeah, I got it." "Here." "Wedeck's orders." "Looks like we finally have something in common." "Neither of us are FBI." "They have been following you ever since you destroyed that doll factory." "Coming here was a mistake." "I can't protect you." "Then I'll just have to find someone who can." "Can I come in?" "Mrs Noh, I think I understand why you didn't want to talk to me about our wedding." " Zoe..." " We need to talk about this." "About what I saw." "'You were there." "With Mr Noh.'" "I didn't see Demetri." "Then I realised something." "No matter how much I begged you, you'd never come to our wedding." "Zoe..." "But you wouldn't miss your son's funeral." "Why didn't you tell us?" "Talking about it with you, with anyone, that would make it real." "Maybe before all this, we would have had difficulties with you marrying our son, but what I saw that day, that moment," "the love you have for Demetri..." "I want you to know, we see things differently now, and we'd be proud for you to be a part of our family." "We wish that was the future." "We wish that more than anything." "We can do more than wish." "Mrs Noh, we can change the future." "# "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)" - John Lennon" "Answer one question." "Are these the shadows of things that will be, or that may be?" "Spirit, hear me, I am not the man I was." "Assure me that I may yet change these shadows that you show me by an altered life!" "I will live in the past, the present and the future, and not shut out the lessons that they teach." "I'm sorry." "What are you sorry for?" "It's my murder." "My problem." "Meanwhile, I'm sitting here with your badge in my pocket." "I'm not gonna shoot you, Dem." "I'm not gonna let this investigation kill you, either." "No matter what happens." "Smile, Bryce." "Haven't you heard?" "It's the most wonderful time of year." "What's this?" "Open it and find out." "It's a lucky cat." "Maneki neko in Japanese." "Depending upon which paw is raised promises different things for your future." "What does the right paw indicate?" "Luck in love." "Thanks, Nicole." "Don't worry,... you'll find her." "I gotta go." "I'm not surveilling you again, I promise." "I'm here on a personal matter, I swear." "How can I help you?" "Do you remember that whole... not-giving-up thing we were talking about earlier?" "Mm-hm." "If I was to start trying now, what exactly should I be doing?" "First of all, this is for a prenatal vitamin..." "Erm, that's all great." "Erm,..." "I need something a little more... basic." "I'm actually gonna be doing this alone and the whole... penis thing is kind of a problem for me cause..." "I don't like them." "Ah." "You're,... you're gay?" "I'm super gay." " Super gay?" " Yeah." " And you need a sperm bank?" " Yeah." "I know of a good one." "Cubit Fertility Clinic, there's a doctor by the name of Jane Parker." "Just tell her I sent you." "She's great." "Thank you, Dr Varley." " I really appreciate it." " No problem." "I tell you, you're gonna love the ambulance, Dylan." "Mr Simcoe, I'm John, my partner here Reid we'll be transporting you and your son." " Thank you." " All ready to go?" "Dr Benford." "I just came to see the two of you off, make sure everything went okay." "Are you ready for your trip, little man?" "Yeah, he's ready, he's just a little shy." "I'm not sure if you've had your training, but, er, Dylan's autistic." " We've had training." " Okay, good." "Sweetie, are you ready to get in the ambulance with these guys and your dad?" "Come on, let's do it." "There we go." "Yeah, it's gonna be fun." "I've got a secret for you." "Cool people call them ambos." " Ambos?" " Ambos, that's right." " Ambos." " That's right." "You're gonna go for a ride in the ambo." "No." "It's okay." "Alright." "No restraints, just on the legs." " It's alright, buddy." " Bye, Dylan." "I'll miss you, kiddo." "See you in a sec." "Thanks, guys." "So I guess this is the part where we, er..." " Wish each other a... nice life." " Something like that." "Come here." "So, the many-worlds theory, that you talk about earlier, is that something you believe in?" "Oh, well, many physicists do these days." "You didn't answer the question." "And out of respect, I'm,..." "I'm not going to." "Thank you again, Olivia." "And goodbye." "Oh, hold on." "Wait, wait, wait." "Hang on there." "Easy." "Hang on there." "Get his legs in." "Hey, let go of his arm!" "Come on!" "You said you were trained." "We don't have time for this." "Come on lady, we're on a schedule." "Excuse me?" "Bill, can you get down here?" "!" "Yeah?" "Er, I don't know what's going on here, but..." "No, no, no." "Please, please, please don't hurt her!" "Get in the van Mr. Simcoe." " I'll come with you." "Please." " Get in the van!" "Go!" "Dylan, it's gonna be okay." "Agh!" " Dad!" "No, Dad!" "Dad!" " Ssshhh."