"¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "Everylivingperson onthisplanet hastheirownunique pairofeyes, eachtheirownuniverse." "¶ ¶" "Mynameis Dr.Ian Gray." "I'ma father, ahusband andI 'ma scientist." "WhenI wasachild, Irealizedthatthe camera wasdesignedexactlylike thehumaneye, takinginlight througha lens, formingitintoimages." "Ibegantaking asmanypicturesofeyes  asI possiblycould." "¶ ¶" "I'dliketo tellyou the story oftheeyes thatchangedmy world." "Remembertheseeyes." "Rememberallthedetails intheseeyes." "Okay." "ItstartedwhenIwas a26-year-oldPhDstudent livinginNewYork." "ItwasHalloween, eightyearsago." "¶ ¶" "You okay?" "I'm watching the moon." "Can I take a picture of your eyes?" "Why?" "It's just something I do." "Okay." "Yeah?" "I've perfected this." "Hi." "Hi." "Do you know the story of the Phasianidae?" "The..." "No." "What's that?" "It's a bird... that experiences all of time in one instant." "And she sings the song of love and anger and fear and joy and sadness all at once... all combined into one magnificent sound." "Where are you from?" "Another planet." "What does the bird sound like?" "It sounds like this." "Lean closer." "Geez..." "It's more like noise." "Yeah." "And this bird... when she meets the love of her life, is both happy and sad." "Happy because she sees that, for him, it is the beginning, and sad because she knows it is already over." "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "Hey, hey, do you want to get a drink?" "I don't drink." "Like, anything?" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "You're not gonna regret this in the morning, right?" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "Your identity confirmed." "I finished that transcription factor program." "Last night?" "No." "This morning." "'Cause, bitch, I don't play." "Got the input genes, and then you put your transcription factor..." "Wait a minute." "You... stink of vodka." "I mean, like, bad." "Like, it smells..." "Yeah, I know, I know I reek off vodka." "Stop talking so loud." "Okay, I consolidated all your data into one database." "You are welcome." "You're amazing." "I hate you." "Well, I love you-- that's why I do it." "Oh, hey." "You got a new rotating student." "It's a first-year." "Oh, sh..." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Have fun babysitting, buddy." "You need gum." "You need..." "to have fun babysitting." "Karen." "Hi." "Ian." "Can I...?" "Follow me." "You'reattemptingto make" " color-blind mice see color?" " That's the idea." "But after failed experiment 352... we'll see." "Why?" "Why what?" "Do so many experiments fail?" "Why are you interested in making color-blind mice see color?" "Oh..." "Why not?" "How are you testing that they see color?" "As the new rotating lab assistant, your job will be to do very boring, very repetitive experiments, be a glorified note taker, and not ask me "why" every five minutes." "Okay?" "Cool." "Commencing experiment... 3-5-3, response to photo pigment protein in Mus musculus." "The control subjects B Beta," "G Gamma," "E Euphoria," "P..." "Psychopannychia." "I don't know what that means." "Look it up." ""G" as in goodness gracious," ""H" as in help me, please," ""Z" as in Zoolander, are the mice muted with the photo pigment protein." "When we animate the lines... color-blind mice stare straight." "Whereas... fingers crossed... the muted mice... shh track the lines with their eyes." "Holy shit." "Holy fucking shit." "Is this on the background of PAX6 overexpression?" "You're a first-year?" "I know-- it's surprising I can put together a sentence." "Sorry, I..." "I asked my last three lab assistants not to come in and I'd sign their credits." "Anyway, this is just one step in a very, very long... process." "This is a rough estimation, but let's just say that the human eye has 12 working parts, right?" "Simplest eye having one." "So if we can fill in the gaps-- the evolutionary gaps-- using single mutations, we can map out the most logical progression of the most basic eye... to the most complex, fully formed human eye." "I don't understand-- why take the time?" "We know that it evolved." "It's an assumption;" "it's not a fact." "When you're no longer a first-year, you'll see how important facts are." "Right." "Each of these animals has an eye that's best selected for its environment." "It would be... cleaner-- less variables-- if you... had an origin." "Go on." "You start with one... to get to 12." "But what if you had zero-- a non-seeing organism-- and built, genetically, an eye from scratch, a zero to 12?" "It'd be a perfect proof, unassailable." "Non-seeing organisms don't have the PAX6 gene." "How do you know?" "Has anyone ever checked all of them?" "I don't think anyone has ever checked... all of them." "You've thought of this before?" "Why did you look surprised?" "Because so have you." "Okay." "Who were those girls?" "Which girls?" "The ones at the Halloween party in the SM outfits." "SM outfits...?" "I-I met one of them;" "I don't know her name." "I don't know her face, but she had these most amazing eyes." "So specific." "Central heterochromia." "Oh, reminds me." "Guess what I did." "What?" "I... figured out an improved implementation technique for Daugman's biometrics algo." "You ever feel like when you met someone, they fill this hole inside of you, and then when they're gone... you feel that space painfully vacant?" "Are you okay, man?" "Yeah, yeah, I'm okay." "Are you okay?" "What did you just say?" "Did you just..." "The way you talked was, like, poetic." "It was weird." "Shut the fuck up." "So weird, dude, I can't believe..." "Oh, shit." "This guy is painfully vacant." "Ian, look at him-- he's so painfully va..." "He's so painfully vacant." "Fuck off." "Can I get a-a pack of Verdict and a Powerball?" "How much is that?" "$11.11." "Eleven..." "Lucky elevens." "Thanks." "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "Karen." "Mm-hmm?" "What are you doing?" "Five percent of all animals don't have vision, and there are 8.7 million species." "So I blasted PAX6 at the database, but nothing came up." "So I started sequencing by myself." "How many did you sequence?" "12." "You've done 12." "So how many do you have left?" "Like, approximately 426,000." "Are you going to write 426,000 names on the window?" "I'm going to find it before I get to the end of the window." "Okay." "What are you doing?" "I'm..." "I'm not doing anything." "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "You know we could be looking forever and find nothing." "Turning over rocks and finding nothing is progress." "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "So,areyougonnatell me whereyou'refrom?" "So many places, I don't know." "Which places?" "Mm..." "To make it short, I was born in Argentina, and when I was 11, I moved to France with my grandmother." "And your-your parents?" "Next." "So, what do you do?" "Next." "Why did you sleep with me that night?" "Poor judgment." "I was lonely for a long time, and when I saw you that night," "I..." "I had the feeling that I had known you." "Actually, I felt like you knew me." "What do you mean?" "Like we are connected from past lives." "I don't believe in that." "What do you believe in?" "I'm a scientist;" "I believe in data." "A scientist?" "Mm-hmm." "What kind of scientist?" "Molecular biology." "I'm most fascinated with the eye." "The eye... the-the eyes?" "The eyes." "Why the eye?" "The eye is the one sticking point that religious people use to discredit evolution." "They use it as proof of a..." "intelligent designer." "Intelligent designer...?" "God." "I'm looking to end the debate once and for all with clear, clean facts." "Data points of every stage of eye evolution." "Why are you working so hard to disprove God?" "Disprove?" "Who proved that God was there in the first place?" "Anyway, let's get some real data points on you, okay?" "Be my guest." "I prefer talking about myself anyways." "Okay." "Um,what'syourfavorite, um..." "Candy?" "StrawberryMentos." "Food?" "Veggieburritos." "I'mvegetarian, youshouldknowthat." "What'syourfavoriteflower?" "Dandelions." "Okay." "Why?" "'Cause,they'refree,wild, andyoucan'tbuy them." "What'syourfavorite fieldofstudy?" "Thestars." "What'syourfavoriteanimal?" "Thewhitepeacock." "Youeverseeone ?" "No." "There'sonein NewYork." "I'lltakeyoutoseeit." "So,you'regonnasee meagain?" "Maybe." "Youknow, inIndianmythology, thewhitepeacocksymbolizes soulsbeingdispersed throughouttheworld." "Didyoueverthink itjustsymbolizes alackof melaninorpigment inthecells?" "Thecontrolsubjects"T..."" ""T"asin tsunami." ""G"asin ..." "Gnome." ""P"asin ..." "Pneumonia." ""M"asin ..." "Mnemonic." "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "I start to see these elevens, like, everywhere." "Too many elevens." "The amount was so staggering, so unlikely, that I followed them." "And when I followed them, I found your eyes, which then led me to you." "Because I found you through your eyes." "Also unlikely... like life itself." "I know." "I sent them to you." "Bullshit." "You know you have it." "Have what?" "But you're scared of it." "I have what?" "Okay." "You live in this room, right?" "Mm-hmm." "Reality." "You have a bed, you have books, um, a desk, a chair, lamps." "Logic." "But in this room, you have a door... to the other side." "See?" "Light comes through." "It's open just a tiny bit, but it is open." "You keep trying to close that door because you're scared." "But you won't always be scared." "What's behind the door?" "Besides my dirty laundry." "You have to go in to find out." "You know what I'm talking about." "I have no idea." "You will." "You will." "Oh..." "You want to move to my place?" "You have a place?" "Mm-hmm." "Of course." "Can I move in tomorrow?" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "Is this your family?" "Yes, it's my grandmother." "Such an eccentric beauty." "And my parents and me when I was a baby." "Um, the white peacock." "But you have met him before." "Mm!" "This is a proof of the spirit world." ""El Ángel de la Resurreccion."" "What?" "It's the name of the statue, of the statue in St. Anne's Cemetery." "It's in St. Anne's Cemetery?" "Mm-hmm." "But look at the eyes." "They're alive." "Yeah." "It's amazing what you can do on Photoshop these days." "There's no Photoshop!" "The eyes appeared just when she took the picture." "Just..." "You're so beautiful." "Let's get more boxes." "19 days gestation period." "She is ready." "Fame, science grants, fortune await you." "If you find that PAX6 gene, we'll be well on our way to all of that." "Recognition makes me extremely nauseous." "Well, it is important that people know about the work." "To me, the best thing about living like a lab rat... is that sometimes... really rare times, you actually discover something." "On the night of a discovery, when you're lying in bed, you are the only person in the world that knows it's true." "Can you promise me something?" "Promise you something?" "Mm-hmm." "What?" "Promise." "I can't promise if you don't tell me what..." "Promise first." "Before you tell me what it is?" "Mm-hmm." "I keep my promises." "Whatever, I won't tell." "Promise." "Okay, I promise." "I want you to burn me." "Burn you?" "I don't want to rot in a box when I die." "Oh, you mean like cremate you." "Mm, yeah." "Oh, no, no." "I don't want to be cremated." "This is a big disagreement I didn't know we had." "Cremation is like obliteration." "I mean, what if in the future, the scientists... what if they can reconstitute ourselves through our DNA?" "I want to be clear with you." "Hmm?" "I don't want that." "You don't want what?" "I don't want to be cloning." ""Cl-Cloneed." Cl..." ""I don't want to be cloning."" ""Cloneed."" "No, but I'd reconstitute myself first, and then I'd reconstitute you, and then I'd ask you," ""Do you want to be alive?"" "And then if you didn't, I'd kill you." "No, but then we could be together forever, like, like, for real, scientifically." "You can't do..." "Reanimated, reconstituted." "You have a hard time letting go." "Don't worry." "We'll find each other again." "I love your smell." "What is it?" "I won't tell." "Come on, tell me." "Mm-mm." "Mm." "Will you marry me?" "¶ ¶" "Next?" "Can I help you?" "We'd like to get married." "Do you have your I.D.'s?" "Yeah." "Yes." "Okay, first you have to get your marriage license, so you have to fill these out." "Okay." "Okay." "You're gonna have to wait 24 hours before you can actually get married." "24 hours?" "!" "Yeah." "Why?" "Well, this way, you have 24 hours to decide whether you want to marry this young man." "But I want to marry him!" "In 24 hours." "So..." "Okay." "All right." "Yeah." "So we can't get married today." "Okay..." "This system really... kills the spontaneity factor, huh?" "We're already married in the spirit world." "Shit." "Hello?" "Hi." "Hi." "Hi." "Hi." "What's up?" "You called, like, five times." "I did." "Why-why would I do that?" "Why might I call five times?" "I don't know." "I was running the electrophoretic drill-- you know, just another Tuesday-- and I started sequencing the genes of this strange worm called Eisenia fetida." "Go on." "And, uh..." "I-I found the PAX6 master switch." "No." "Yeah." "Are you serious right now?" "You fucking with me?" "Do you know what this means?" "We found an origin species, and we can build an eye from scratch." "Holy sh...!" "Um, uh, does it..." "does it have the same amino acid sequence as humans?" "I-I can't even..." "I can't even talk right now." "I feel like I'm gonna piss myself." "Can you just come in here?" "Okay, I'm coming in right now." "You're amazing." "Bye." "Bye-bye." "Bye." "Who was that?" "That was Karen, uh... my rotating... well... my lab partner." "I have to go into the lab, right now." "Do you want to come with me?" "On our wedding day?" "It's... well, it's not... technically, it's not our wedding day today." "And we've been married... forever in the spiritual world, right?" "Sofi, please, come in with me." "It's really important." "Sure." "Yeah?" "Mm." "It's fine." "Let's go." "Well, d... don't be upset about it." "Let's put our rings on." "I don't want to;" "it's bad luck." "I don't believe in luck." "I do believe we've known each other since forever, though." "Really?" "Yeah." "You know how?" "When the big bang happened, all the atoms in the universe, they were all smashed together into one little dot that exploded outward." "So my atoms and your atoms were certainly together then, and, who knows, probably... smashed together several times in the last 13.7 billion years." "So my atoms have known your atoms... and they've always known your atoms." "My atoms have..." "always loved your atoms." "¶ ¶" "Let's go." "Karen." "Hey." "Hi." "Hi." "This is..." "Sofi, this is Karen." "Karen, this is Sofi." "Hi." "She's my wife." "Welcome." "Um..." "What do you want to see?" "I want to see everything." "Uh..." "So, I have this gel." "And it aligns?" "The alignment crossed PAX6 proteins... 98% identity." "Are these the worms?" "They-they can't see anything." "Not for long." "You know, um..." "I should..." "I'm gonna go take a shower." "You've seen it." "I should... take a shower, IAN:" "Shower?" "brush my teeth..." "Wait a minute, you're gonna go right now?" "Um... yeah." "Yeah, I'm sure you want to show your wife around the lab and..." "Okay." "Are you sure?" "Okay." "Well, uh... this is amazing." "The beginning of something... amazing." "It was nice to meet you." "Amazing stuff, Karen." "Bye." "Bye." "Bye." "What's wrong?" "I know something's wrong, so..." "You leave me every day to torture little worms?" "We're not torturing worms..." "Sofi." "If you're interested, we're modifying organisms." "In this case, they happen to be worms, that are blind, and we're modifying them to have vision." "You can make blind worms see?" "Kind of." "I mean, we can now, maybe." "You think that's a good idea?" "Do you think it's a bad idea?" "I think... it's dangerous to play God." "Sofi, I believe in proof." "There is no proof that there is some magical spirit... uh, that's invisible, living above us, right on top of us..." "How many senses do worms have?" "They have two:" "smell... and touch." "Why?" "So... they live without any ability to see or even know about light, right?" "The notion of light to them is... unimaginable." "Yeah." "But... we humans... we know... that light exists... all around them, right on top of them." "They cannot sense it, but... with a little mutation, they do." "Right?" "Correct." "So..." "Dr. Eye... perhaps some humans-- rare humans-- have mutated to have another sense-- a spirit sense-- and can perceive a world that is right on top of us... everywhere... just..." "like the light on these worms." "So you're a mutant." "Mm-hmm." "And I'm not the only one." "Aah!" "Oh, sh..." "Jesus!" "Are you okay?" "Here, let me see." "I got formaldehyde in my eye." "Get the splash kit." "What is it?" "Aah!" "Fuck!" "What is it?" "Tell me!" "It's-it's... yellow!" "It's right over there." "It's yellow." "Call Karen." "Fucking call Karen now." "Where's the number!" "The number's by the door." "By the door." "Got it." "We should do this every Friday." "How many fingers am I holding up?" "12." "He's not blind." "So that's good." "I think you're gonna be fine." "Are you okay?" "Yeah." "Okay." "Thank you." "Yeah." "You're gonna feel fine in... 12 hours or something." "I'll call tomorrow and check in on him." "Thank you." "Yeah, of course." "This is funny." "Yeah." "It's, um strange." "Find me." "Whoa." "Whoa what?" "We are in the middle of two floors." "We stopped." "Hmm." "Hmm." "We should call the super." "The super what?" "The super." "The superintendent." "Um, the guy that fixes the building." "Can you call him?" "I don't know this guy." "I don't have his number." "Of course you don't." "Here." "It's under "super."" "What?" "Your phone is dead." "It's dead?" "Yeah." "Now, come on, relax." "You're so irresponsible." "Okay..." "Want me to call Karen?" "Don't be a child." "You live in this fairy, magical... fantasy land." "It's a fucking lie, and you know it's a lie." "That's... it's a lie that you want to believe, like a child." "Like a child." "Okay." "Okay." "Come on." "What's gonna happen?" "I got..." "I'll boost you up." "No, no, no, you go first, Come on." "and you pull me up." "Sofi, come on..." "I'm not going first." "You go first." "Look at you." "You're so scared." "Come on." "Be careful." "Look how easy that was." "Come on." "Come on, let's go." "Sofia, come on!" "Give me your hand." "Give me your hand." "Oh..." "Okay, come on." "Sofi?" "Sofi?" "Sofi?" "Sofi?" "Sofi?" "Sofi?" "Sofi!" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "Hello?" "Can I come over?" "No." "Maybe." "What if I bring you something that I know will take your breath away." "It has an eye." "I mean, just light-sensitive cells, but... we did it." "Mutations are holding." "You did it." "That's the first step in a really long process." "It's gonna end as a worm in a box if you don't get your ass back in the lab." "Why don't you eat something." "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "Heclaimsto have puttorestthe notion thattheeyewas made byanintelligentdesigner." "Dr. Gray, you made some mutants in a laboratory, and now you expect all religious people to what, just throw away their beliefs?" "Well, I..." "I expect them to fight me every step of the way." "But I do implore them to look at the evidence and data that we've collected here." "These specimens are practical examples of every stage of eye development." "Dr. Ian Gray, uh, thanks for being here." "Thanks for having me." "Uh, the book is TheCompleteEye." "All right." "How'd I do?" "Why do you do that thing with your face?" "What-what do you...?" "That thing where you're, like..." "You did nothing with your face." "It was good, it was good." "Man, you should have joined the private sector, Professor." "It's-it's crazy." "Iris biometrics is... exploding all over the world." "I'll take love over money any day." "Wow, that's..." "that's mature of you." "You think I could really get a job there?" "Thank you." "You all right?" "Any more drinks?" "Uh, yeah, I just... there's a smell, I can't place it." "Maybe it's your perfume." "Any more drinks?" "Uh, no, actually, we'd like to know what your perfume is?" "You don't have to answer that." "I'm, I'm ju..." "It's Trésor." "Trésor?" " It's lovely." " Thank you." "I'm okay with... drink." "It's Trésor." "It's French." "Are you hitting on the... waitress in front of your pregnant wife?" "I don't know if you know this about me, Kenny, but the gene for jealousy-- recessive." "That's... that's good, for him." "I'm going to the dance floor with my pregnant, lovely wife." "I'm gonna get her number for you." "Please." "Thank you." "I'm so looking forward to brainwashing this child with you." "You know what I was thinking?" "What?" "¶ ¶" "What if we turn the garage into a lab?" "And the baby could be our first test subject." "That's a great idea." "Is there something ethically wrong with that?" "No." "You know what I want to do?" "I think we should leave." "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "I'm, uh, picking up a prescription for my wife, Karen Gray." "¶ ¶" "How about if I sing to you?" "¶ Beautiful dreamer ¶" "¶ Wake unto me... ¶" "¶ Sounds of the rude world ¶" "¶ Heard in the day ¶" "¶ Lull'd by the moonlight ¶" "¶ Have all pass'd away... ¶" "Shh... ¶ Beautiful dreamer ¶" "¶ Wake unto me ¶" "¶ Starlight and dewdrops ¶" "¶ Are waiting for thee... ¶" "¶ Say hello to the camera. ¶" "Sofi, come on." "Be nice." "Be nice." "Come on, act like a lady." "Hello." "Hello." "Hello." "I want you." "I want you more." "Don't stop." "I want to know what's turning you on." "I-I..." "I never do this." "I sometimes think about the cause and effect of it, and I think about how-- and I don't feel guilty for this but I think about how if I hadn't called you into the lab that day she would..." "maybe still be here, and you would be with her." "Can I tell you something that makes me feel like a monster?" "That day in the elevator," "Am I going to be stuck with this child the rest of my life?" "And then the next moment, she was dead." "We were never gonna be..." "together, Karen." "I just never got... closure." "I never got to say... good-bye." "Kiss me." "¶ ¶" "Iris scanning is a new identification measure taken up by the more sophisticated hospitals." "We-we know what iris scanning is." "We've had it in our lab for a... for a decade." "Well, it's still new to the general public." "Now, we are not yet legally required to scan eyes, but we adopted the technology and use it with the parents' consent." "I-I'm fine with it." "Do you, uh...?" " Scan, yeah." "Do the scan." " I dim the lights." "The system is non-obtrusive, and in all actuality is just taking photo of the eyes." "There you go." "Come here, Tobias." "Oh, thank you." "You got it?" "Y..." "Yes, I got it." "Thank you." "What happens then is, the computer finds a bunch of points in the crevices of the eye..." "Yeah, we-we understand how it works." "Oh, forgive me." "These systems are sort of new." "Can you tell?" "Paul Edgar Dairy?" "Sounds like a pirate." "If this happens, I'm supposed to punch in a key and reboot." "Wait." "There we go." "So I'll just put in his info." "What is his name?" "I like Paul Edgar Dairy." "It's fine." "Tobias..." "George Gray." "After his grandfather." " Hello?" " Hi." "Is this Ian Gray?" "It is." "My name is Dr. Simmons." "I work in conjunction with Yale and the Greenwich hospital where you and your wife gave birth in July." "Y-Yeah, yeah." "Is every... everything okay?" "Yes, everything's okay." "Please don't be alarmed." "We would, however, like to run a few simple tests on Tobias." "His test results may suggest, although highly unlikely, the... the possibility of early autism." "You know I'm a doctor." "What test results?" "The..." "We've pinpointed..." "Uh..." "Can you hold on a moment, please?" "Karen, listen to this." "Yeah." "We've pinpointed an array of molecular compounds that appear in the urine of children with autism... and Tobias showcased a few of them." "I promise it's unlikely, but worth checking out, and we have very simple, non-obtrusive tests, and we'll be done in an hour." "What was your name and affiliation?" "Dr. Janet Simmons." "I run a research lab on child autism in conjunction with Yale and the Greenwich hospital." "Simmons, you said?" "Janet Simmons." "Our clinic is in Stamford, not too far from there." "It's important to check this soon." "There's... no alarming rush, but..." "we could see him today." "Okay." "Thank you." "You'll hear from us." "¶ ¶" "Tobias." "Look here." "Look here." "I'm not sure I understand how this is testing for autism." "The blood and urine tests will check for molecular compounds." "This test is purely perceptual, tracking the child's eye movements and attractions." "¶ ¶" "Okay, that's enough." "I'm..." "Yeah." "The test is over." "¶ ¶" "If you are calling regarding an existing child, please enter your seven-digit session number." "This Dr. Simmons is up to something." "Child autism, my ass." "I keep running through her studies." "What was she doing?" "Two images side by side." "Two images, similar but different." "Tobias would look at one or the other." "Do you remember anything specific about the images?" "Something connected to something?" "Something we could look up?" "There was a..." "farmhouse." "There was, um..." "Dan's Diner in Boise, Idaho." "Whatever that means." "Well, that's a real place." "¶ ¶" "Hello." "What can I get you?" "Um, just a cup of coffee." "Sure thing." "I'm not from around here." "I was wondering, uh, is there anything interesting in town to see?" "Not much around these parts." "Unless you, uh, fancy visiting some cows down at the dairy farm." "There's a dairy farm?" "Mm-hmm." "That'll be a dollar." "Oh." "Of course." "Where is the dairy farm located?" "Uh, take a left, about two miles down the road." "Can't miss it." "¶ ¶" "We'll have 'em through in a moment." "O-Okay." "Come on!" "Is this the dairy farm?" "Indeed it is." "These are milking cows?" "These are meat cows, not milking cows." "I'm Julie Dairy." "This is my family's farm." "Julie Dairy?" "Uh, Paul Edgar Dairy." "Are you related to him?" "Yes, he's my father." "Is he here?" "You're clearly not with the biography association." "The, um, I'm sorry." "I don't follow." "Some documentary crew came through here a few months ago, wanting to do a story on the great Paul Edgar Dairy, the only black farmer in Boise." "They took some pictures." "I liked the story, and they said they'd follow up." "You okay?" "How you doing there?" "I'm okay." "I'm just, uh, having a moment of déjà vu." "Can we fetch you some water?" "Or a cup of tea?" "I'd really love to meet Paul, if that was possible." "What if we just start at the beginning and break it down?" "In the hospital, Tobias's eyes come up as a match with Paul Edgar Dairy, which is not correct, because Tobias has blue eyes and Paul Edgar Dairy has brown eyes." "Uh, no, iris biometrics is not based on color." "It's based on the unique crypts, furrows and shapes in the texture." "So maybe Tobias and Paul have the same iris pattern." "Statistically impossible." "Second data point." "Tobias and Paul have some kind of connection." "It's not our test, so we don't know." "And the third data point is that" "Paul Edgar Dairy dies before Tobias is born." "Was conceived." "Was conceived, because Tobias is born in July, and Paul Edgar Dairy dies in September 2012; that's that's ten months." "Okay, what-what are you guys talking about right now?" "This... you guys sound like crazy people." "Okay?" "What is this connection referencing?" "Doctor..." "Ja..." "Dr. Simmons." "From Yale." "She did this test on Tobias." "Dr. Simmons?" "From Yale?" "She's one-one of five people who have access to the eye database." "What?" "My company owns a patent on iris biometrics and consolidate all their data into one database." "And Simmons is one of five people that have access." "But you have access to it, too." "Sort of." "I can find the iris code, okay?" "Run it and see if it's in the system, and then check the IP address and check-check when and where it was registered." "I can do that." "How do you do that?" "Look into that." "Okay, other eye." "All right." "Okay." "So I can't get your name or biographicals, but I can see that you are in the system." "Amazing." "Right?" "And that... you were registered at the lab in 2005, and the same should be for Karen and myself." "What are you thinking, Karen?" "Well, check this out." "So Paul and Tobias have the same iris patterns, let's just say, and there's some sort of connection." "So the next logical step in our scientific inquiry is to find someone that we do know who's a duplicate in the system." "Like a family member who has died." "That's it." "We need another match." "Guys, this is statistically impossible." "You're not gonna find anything." "Can you get a scan from a photo?" "It has to be high-res and in focus." "Technically, I can do it, but..." "I have hundreds of high-res photos of people's eyes." "All right." "You can scan these." "Give me the hard drive." "This is ridiculous." "Who do you want me to run?" "Hmm, run my father." "Tobias George Gray." "All right." "He died two years ago." "He's in the system, and... and he's registered" " at Heathrow 2006." " Okay." "That makes sense." "He-he was traveling there frequently." "Try, um, my Uncle Basil." "He died seven years ago of cancer." "All right." "Not found." "Try your grandparents." "My grandparents." "Yeah." "Bev and Barry." "Bev..." "She's in the system." "Registered... at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, in 1998." "How many people are in the database?" "There's, like, hundreds of millions." "There's a billion soon." "Try my grandparents." "Okay." "Right there." "Judy is in the system." "She was registered in a nursing home in New Haven in 2009." "And Malcolm?" "Malcolm..." "Not found." "Not registered." "All right, so anybody else?" "Sofi." "Okay, try-try Sofi." "Okay." "Sofi." "She's in the system." "Yeah, that makes sense." "She was probably scanned when she came through Customs." "No." "It says that... the IP address coordinates say that she was scanned in a community center in Delhi, India." "She must have traveled there." "Three months ago?" "That doesn't make any sense." "That's not right." "It's an error." "It's only the seventh one we tried." "I need to get some air." "What the fuck is happening?" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "Did you put him to bed?" "Yeah." "You should go to India." "I can't go to India." "Can't or won't?" "India is not Boise, Idaho, Karen." "There is someone there with Sofi's exact iris pattern." "The eyes and the brain are connected." "If-if the cellular structure in the eye is reoccurring from person to person, then maybe something in the brain carries over as well, like a neurological link..." "Maybe the eye really is some kind of... window to the soul." "Soul, Karen?" "Soul?" "Is my wife really using the word "soul"?" "Like you hold any validity in that?" "Call it whatever you want to call it." "Dr. Simmons was testing a memory connection between our son and Paul Edgar Dairy." "And it wasn't our test, but you can go to India, and you can find this person with Sofi's eyes, and you can do the same." "I can't go there." "It's just India." "Why can't you make..." "Not India." "I can't go there!" "I can't go back there!" "I can't go back to that part of my life!" "I can't do it!" "I gotta just let it go." "¶ ¶" "The man I married..." "I don't think he would let his own grief, even if it was overwhelming, get in the way of what could potentially be the greatest scientific discovery the world has ever seen." "This is bigger than you." "It's bigger than me." "It's bigger than Sofi." "Then-then maybe you should go." "I would... but I-I didn't know Sofi." "It's a false positive, you understand?" "It's an error;" "it has to be an error." "It's st... it's a statistically impossible data point." "If I drop this phone a thousand times, a million times, and one time it doesn't fall, just once, it hovers... in the air that is an error that's worth looking at." "You're so fucking stubborn." "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "Technology has barely touched" "Mira Devi's daily life." "In her hut, muscle, not machines, gets the chores done." "That is about to change for Mira and perhaps millions like her." "At this center, heririsesarescanned withbiometricdevices." "They'reuploadedandthensent  toa massiveserver." "Oncethisinformation isprocessed, outcomesa12-digitnumber forherandher only." "India'sunique identificationprogram startedjustayearago." "Ifitsucceeds," "Indiawillbecomethe  firstcountryin theworld usingbiometricdata foridentitypurposes ona nationalscale." "¶ ¶" "Whoa." "First time to India?" "It is, actually." "Yeah." "Darryl Mackenzie." "Uh, Dr. Ian Gray." "Oh, "Doctor."" "Well." "Two men, both doing good work." "What do you do?" "Well, I'm in sales, but, uh also do The Man's work." "The Lord's work." "Oh." "Uh, of course." "Good night, Dr. Gray." "Uh, have a good night." "Hope our paths cross again." "¶ ¶" "Hello." "Uh, can I help you?" "You seem like the boss of this place." "Boss?" "No, circus manager, more like it." "I'm Priya Varma." "How can I help you?" "I'm Dr. Ian Gray." "I'm visiting from America." "I have a very strange request." "Yes?" "I'm looking for someone who was scanned here a while back." "The thing is, I-I don't have their name." "All I have is a picture of their eyes." "This is what their eyes look like." "They may not be this exact color." "Uh..." "Why are you looking for her?" "Is she in some kind of trouble?" "Her?" "Uh, no, of course not." "She's not in trouble." "She's-she's incredibly special." "So you do recognize them?" "I do, if it is who I think it is, but why are you looking for her?" "Here's another photo." "Okay, um, this doesn't make sense." "These are her eyes, but this isn't her face around them." "That's exactly why I'm looking for her." "Salomina." "Salomina?" "Yeah." "Sweet girl, uh, very smart girl." "But, uh, I haven't seen her recently." "When was the last time you saw her?" "Uh, a few months ago." "Could you help me find her?" "Um..." "I could make a donation to the community center." "I mean, I'm-I'm going to make a donation to the community center." "I don't want to sound crass, like I'm bribing you, but I am kind of bribing you." "No, no, no, of course." "I mean, of course, any donation would help the center." "Uh..." "It's very important." "Please." "Okay." "You meet me tomorrow at 12:00 at the Okhla market, okay?" "¶ ¶" "All right, I-I'll take a..." "You want me to take a photo of you?" "You want to see?" "You see?" "Okay." "Hello." "I almost didn't come." "Yeah, I was worried." "What changed your mind?" "I, um..." "I did some research on you." "Uh-oh." "Come." "Hello." "Do all these children... do they eventually end up at the community center or..." "Some do, but there are over one million people living in this 30-block radius alone." "According to the registrar," "Salomina and her parents live here." "Somebody's here" " I'm gonna ask this lady here." "Okay." "...Salomina." "Ah, Salomina..." "What's wrong?" "What'd she say?" "Shecouldbe living likea straydog." "She's totally alone." "Her mother's dead;" "her father's dead." "She knows the address of the community center, but Priya said she hasn't been there in weeks." "There's a million people living in a ten-block radius." "It's gonna be impossible to find her." "Well, you shouldn't give up." "You flew halfway around the world." "You should keep looking." "At least give it a few days." "I'm gonna go to bed." "Good night." "Bye." "What am I doing here?" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "You're mad." "It's a smoke signal." "Someone she knows will see it." "I'm glad you didn't put my number up there." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Hi, yes?" "Yeah, my niece has eyes like the picture board, cash reward." "Are they just like the ones in the picture?" "Yes, I think so." "Like, exactly?" "Uh, very much so." "How old is your niece?" "Eighteen." "My other niece is 15." "Oh, no, um, sorry." "Thank you, no." "Sorry, wrong person." "Bye." "Hello?" "Do you speak English?" "Yes, I do." "I'm sorry, what-what were you saying?" "I have the eyes you took up the advertisement for." "How old are you?" "Twenty-four." "No, sorry." "The person I'm looking for is much younger." "No, thank you for calling." "Sorry." "Very good!" "I'm the best!" "I'm the very best?" "I'm the very best." "Very good." "Dr. Gray, are you..." "are you religious?" "Am I religious?" "I thought you researched me." "I'm not religious." "Why not?" "Religion is based on scripture written by men thousands of years ago." "Those beliefs can't be changed or challenged." "They're fixed." "In science, great thinkers have written things very long ago, but every generation improves upon them." "The words are not holy." "Einstein is a brilliant man, but he's not our god." "He's one step in the evolution of knowledge, but we always continue to step forward." "You know... a scientist once asked the Dalai Lama," ""What would you do if something scientific disproved your religious beliefs?"" "And he said, after much thought," ""I would look at all the papers." ""I'd take a look at all the research" ""and really try to understand things." ""And in the end, if it was clear" ""that the scientific evidence disproved my spiritual beliefs," "I would change my beliefs."" "That's a good answer." "Ian what would you do if something spiritual disproved your scientific beliefs?" "Hello, love." "The bank called today." "They said that $2,000 a day is going to some sketchy Planet India company." "It's, like, 20k already." "What's going on?" "I put up a billboard." "I-I know it sounds a bit extreme, but it's all I could think of." "Ian, it's been weeks." "I think you should come back." "Karen, what-what happened to turning over rocks and finding nothing is progress?" "I'm down with the big picture of all this." "I'm the one who wanted you to go." "But failed experiments are not unknown to us, right?" "We regroup." "We look for more matches." "We try again." "Please come home." "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "Do you speak English?" "A little." "A little?" "Yes." "What's your name?" "Salomina." "Salomina?" "Yes." "Salomina," "I-I'm Ian." "My name is Ian." "Are you hungry?" "Yes." " You are?" " Yes." "Come on." "Let's get you some food." "Come on." "Priya, I found her." "Where are you?" "I'm going to the hotel." "Um, hey!" "Can you meet me there?" "Listen, I'll be right there, okay?" "¶ ¶" "What's your favorite food?" "Strawberry." "Strawberry?" "Just strawberry?" "What's your favorite color?" "Pink, purple, blue and green." "Pink, purple... blue and green?" "Blue and green." "That's so many." "See my finger?" "Can you follow it?" "Very good." "Very good." "Very good." "Very good." "¶ ¶" "You okay?" "You comfortable?" "You okay?" "Yes." "Are you there?" "Yeah." "I want to show you something that will take your breath away." "¶ ¶" "Karen, this is Salomina." "Salomina, this is Karen." "I need my lab partner." "Okay." "Yeah." "I'm ready." "Okay, so, Salomina, it's a very easy game." "I'm going to show you three things, and you pick the one that's your favorite." "Okay." "You understand?" "Yes." "Okay." "Commencing experiment one." "Memory connection between subjects with identical iris patterns." "Got it." "Salomina." ""S" as in..." "Shut the front door." ""A" as in..." "Amazing." ""L" as in..." "Love you." ""O"..." "Open-minded." ""M" as in..." "Maestro." ""I" as in..." "Ian Gray." ""N" as in..." "No way this is true." ""A" as in..." "Afterlife." "Okay." "Let's start." "You ready?" "Yes." "Yes?" "Okay." "Here we go." "Alpha, correct." "¶ ¶" "Beta, correct." "Charlie correct." "Delta, incorrect, but it..." "it's not a good one." "Echo, incorrect." "Sort of." "Okay." "Foxtrot, incorrect." "Gamma, incorrect." "Howie, incorrect." "India... correct." "Joker, incorrect." "Kimo, incorrect." "Love... correct." "Incorrect." "Incorrect." "Universe, correct." "Vito, incorrect." "Wendy, incorrect." "X-ray, incorrect." "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "Yoga correct." "Okay." "What's the tally?" "44 percent." "Which is, um, a touch above random by an unfortunately standard margin." "How do you feel?" "I think numbers don't lie." "I didn't ask what you think;" "I asked what you feel." "I feel... kind of foolish." "I'll see you soon." "Okay." "I make bad test?" "What?" "I make bad test?" "No." "No, you did fine." "You did perfect." "It's just a stupid test." "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "Captioned by MediaAccessGroupatWGBH  access.wgbh.org" "Give me an update on the archivist images." "We've collected hundreds of images at high enough resolution." "Just, uh, waiting on your approval to scan." "No time like the present." "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶"