"Copyright from ecOtOne™" "(BREATHES DEEPLY)" "yöu deserve this... yöu do." "yöu've earned it." "(GROANS)" "I can do all things." "All things." "Come on..." "Come on, come on..." "(FOOTSTEPS)" "I am the Invigilator." "Listen carefully to every word I say." "There will be no repetition." "I won't apologise for the hardships yöu've endured reaching this room 'cause the pressures and pains were necessary." "Resilience is a key attribute in these dark times, and if yöu can't survive our selection process, yöu won't survive in the job." "Many highly-qualified candidates tried to get this far and failed." "yöu have succeeded." "And now the final stage lies before yöu." "One last hurdle separates yöu from yöur goal which is to join our esteemed ranks." "The test is simple in comparison, yet it will determine who leaves this room with a contract of employment and who leaves with the bus fare home." "Through these trials, yöu've gained some idea of the power of this organisation, so believe me when I tell yöu that there's no law in this room but our law." "And the only rules in here are our rules." "There's one question before yöu, and one answer is required." "If yöu try to communicate with myself or the guard, yöu will be disqualified." "If yöu spoil yöur paper, intentionally or accidentally, yöu will be disqualified." "If yöu choose to leave the room for any reason, yöu will be disqualified." "Any questions?" "Best of luck, ladies and gentlemen." "We're giving the eight of yöu 80 minutes." "80 minutes to convince us yöu have what it takes to join us." "80 minutes to determine the next 80 years of yöur lives." "Begin." "I'm not finished." "No, please. yöu can't!" "This isn't a proper test!" "Please, I'll start over!" "Just give me a chance!" "(SHE CRIES)" "(SPEAKS in CANTONESE)" "Hey..." "Listen, listen, listen, listen." "It's not about what he said, yöu know." "It's what he didn't say." ""lf yöu attempt to communicate..."" "..with myself or the guard... ..yöu will be disqualified." " He didn't say..." " ..we can't speak to each other." " Now yöu're talking." " Is this the ultimate mind-fuck or what?" " Has anyone figured out the answer?" " No." "It's not about the answer." "It's about the question." " What's the question?" " We've got 74 minutes left to figure out." "(WOMAN) If the answer takes one minute to write down." "If it takes 73 minutes to write, we have one minute to guess the question." "We're short on writing space." "I'm betting it's the former." "We've gotta help each other." "We're in competition." "Why should I help yöu to beat me?" "We may be in competition to answer the question, but to establish the question we have to cooperate." "They expect us to cooperate, don't they?" "What'd yöu expect, yöu're gonna win this job, with all the rewards that come with it, by giving them a little simple written answer?" "Facts and opinions?" "Compare and contrast" "They're not looking for that." "A job like this needs initiative, observation..." "..interplay." " Teamwork." "He's right." " (WOMAN) We're in a stress scenario." "A confusing, time-critical situation designed to test our intelligence, and resilience." " To bring out the worst in us." " (MAN) Or the best." "We help each other until the playing field is open then it's every man for themselves no offence, girls." " Are we all agreed?" " Yes." "Agreed." " Let's go, Gandhi." " My name isn't Gandhi, friend." "It's..." "No names." "Not real ones, anyway." "They're not written on this for a reason." "We'll use nicknames, then." " All right, let's make this easy." " We already have numbers." "Yeah, and visual." "yöu're Black." "I'm White." "yöu're Brown." "We've got Blonde here," "Brunette there... ..Dark, I suppose." "And last as well as least we've got Deaf." " Tough last round." " Yeah, whatever." "Any objections?" "Apart from yöur grossly insensitive sexual and racial stereotyping?" "If yöu're the sensitive type, yöu shouldn't be here, love." "I'll take Brown over Gandhi, we're talking about something that matters." "I'll take that as a yes." "(sighs DEEPLY)" "So, what else hasn't he forbidden?" "He hasn't forbidden us to stand, has he?" " Well, I guess moving about is OK too." " What's that gonna achieve?" "I don't know, Brown." "But sitting wasn't getting us anywhere exciting." "What if the question is written down but we just can't see it?" "That's what I'm talking about!" " yöu mean like invisible ink?" " Or a watermark." " It's possible." " It's probable." "Where else would it be?" "(BRUNETTE) We'd need something to reveal it." "Like light." " Right." " Those are halogen." "Those aren't." "They won't bite, yöu know." "They're not gonna make it that easy, are they?" "We're on the clock." "How hard can they afford to make it?" "What if the pencil isn't just for writing the answer?" "What if it reveals the question too?" "By shading the page, like tracing paper?" " Try it, Blonde." " No." "Remember what he said." "If yöu spoil yöur paper, intentionally or accidentally... ..yöu'll be disqualified." "Is anyone certain they know what his definition of spoiling is?" "Look, let's crack this." "Throw out some ideas." "What if the questions are hidden in the paper, but each of us has to write a different answer?" "He said..." "There's one question before yöu, and one answer is required." "That doesn't mean it's the same question for each of us." "There could be eight different questions and answers." "If we find one question, we can find them all." "Not necessarily." "Not if our eight individual questions can only be revealed using eight different methods." "Perhaps we're not meant to cooperate at all." "I like that idea." "Or there's only one question, printed on only one of our sheets." " Then we'd need to cooperate..." " Time-out for some testing." " Everyone up to the light." " I said it won't be that easy." "Unless yöu want to make a list of our brainwaves, White," "I say we cross a few off as we go." "Fine." "(WHITE) Allow me." "Thank yöu." "Yeah, join in any time, Deaf" "Not one for small talk, are yöu?" "Come." "Relax, yöu'll get it back" "Like I said, I think we can strike light off the list." "Light is a spectrum." "There's light we can see, but there's light we can't see." "Like ultraviolet, infra-red, X-rays." "If we can't see it, how are we supposed to find it?" "The source must be visible, even if the light isn't." "Right?" "(sighs DEEPLY)" "Find the light switches." "There aren't any, not in here anyway." "And..." "If yöu choose to leave the room for any reason... ..we'll be disqualified." "There must be some way to trigger these." "This is emergency lighting." "So let's create an emergency." "That would be very risky." " It's less risky than doing nothing." " He's right." "If we try this and fail, we can't go back." "Blackout." "We vote." "Those too." "Nice!" "Very nice!" "Touch of blue, what yöu wanted?" "This is black light." "The kind credit card firms use to reveal their security symbols." "(WHITE) Shame we didn't apply to work for Visa" " Our gamble might have paid off." " (BROWN) lt did pay off." "Just not in the way yöu wanted." "yöu acted, and the room reacted." "We've entered a dialogue now, we should keep going." "Yeah, maybe..." "Maybe not." "Sorry, it was invisible light yöu said yöu wanted." "This looks pretty fucking visible to me." "Scientific term for it is "near-ultraviolet"." "It didn't work, but it was worth trying." "If nothing else we'll come out of this with great tans." "We've got to knock these out too." "The top halves of these strips aren't lit." "Look." "Infrared." "The other option." " That exposes something too?" " It's less common than UV, but yes." "Art historians use it to make reflectograms of the sketch outlines beneath paintings." "If there's a hidden layer in our papers..." "Carefully." "Let me guess, "near-infrared"?" "All right, everyone, try again." " Anyone?" "Anything?" " (DARK) No." " (BRUNETTE) Shit!" " (GRUNTS)" " Now can we get off the lighting?" " If yöu can provide a better alternative." "Any alternative." "We've burned a quarter of our time already." "Perhaps they company's Japanese-owned and this is an origami exam." "Be our guest." "That sheet is yöurs to spoil." "Yes, it is, but only yöur sheet." " It's a piece of paper." " No, it's more than that now." "This is experimental material." " If yöu spoil..." " ..yöur paper." " yöur paper!" " ..yöu will be disqualified." "This isn't mine." "This is hers." "(lN HIGH-PlTCHED voice) "It's not fair"" "And she's gone." "So..." "Tracing..." "Well, congratulations, Blonde." "yöur idea sucks too." "This could all be a distraction, yöu know." "We could be missing something obvious." "Yeah, yeah, yeah!" "All right!" "Light does not work, lead does not work..." "Liquid!" "Oh, yeah..." "Right." "Lick it, spit on it, get it wet." "If the question's watermarked we need some liquid to bring it out." " (BLACK) What are yöu doing with yöurs?" " yöu don't wanna know." " Actually, we do." " Well, yöu can come and watch." "yöu can hold it for me too if yöu like." " Though I'd prefer it if Blonde did." " (BLACK) That's disgusting." ""By any means necessary", right, brother?" " If we can do it, we should." " (URlNATES)" "That's not gonna burn the question out." "Urine's sterile. yöu can drink it..." " (TO HIMSELF) Wish yöu would." " Great." "A pissing contest." "(BLACK) Anything?" " I can't tell yet. lt's all yellow." " (BLACK) Hold it up and let us see." "If yöu'll lend me a glove, I'll oblige." "Well, I'm running out of ideas." "Giving up so easily, Black, with 57 minutes on the clock?" "yöu know what..." "Will yöu two shut up?" "Some of us are trying to think!" "(GASPlNG)" "At last, he speaks." "(DARK) He's French." " (DEAF) Vous voyez la?" " Does anyone here speak French?" "Vous voyez la?" "Can yöu see?" "Vous voyez...?" "Regardez bien." " Can yöu see it in there?" " See what in there?" "See what?" "Pretty colours?" " Vous-meme." " yöurself." "Vous vous voyez." "It shows yöu yöurself." " And then there was six." " Leave him alone." "He's done nothing." "He's done nothing for me either or any of us." "Nutter!" "Toujours y voir clairement est primordial." "To see clearly is all." "All right, that's enough out of yöu, Sartre!" "Fucking philosophers." "Thank God this world belongs to the doers, not the thinkers." "Since we're proposing grand theories, let me advance one of my own." "This is not an exam." "Not in the conventional sense anyway." "Look around." "yöu couldn't ask for a more representative group to qualify for the final stage." "Four men and four women entered this room, all from differing cultures and ethnic backgrounds, possessing a healthy mixture of skill-sets." "How convenient that is." "How staged." "What are yöu saying?" "They rigged the tests to bring us together?" "Some kind of experiment in group dynamics." " What are yöu on about?" " I'm saying this is a game." " And they're betting on us." " Right and who is "they"?" "The board." "I guess they're watching us right now." "They'll be ex-VCs mostly." "Probably left the incubator when they realised their little start-up had struck the motherlode." "It wouldn't get any sweeter than this, I'm sure." "So they joined the board, secured some big fat stock options and bought themselves the right to have a little fun..." "With us." "Don't they have better things to do with their time?" "Like what?" "At their level, money ceases to be the prime motivator." "It's risk they live for." "They're type A's, like us, and just as they were trained by their investment companies, they're still betting on ideas today." "Ours." "Who'll decipher the question, who'll come up empty and fold and who'll crack under pressure?" "yöu could be wrong." "It could just be the Invigilator behind there." "Wanna bet?" "(DARK) I wouldn't, if I were yöu." "Brown talks like a gambler because he is one." "A professional." "Aren't yöu?" "And yöu, Dark, are a shrink." "Psychologist or psychiatrist?" "I forget the difference." "Psychiatrists dispense drugs to control mood." "I'm a qualified student of human behaviour." "Then yöu should know what I'm talking about." "The point of having power is to exercise it in all its forms." " We're pawns of the Gods in here." " So?" "This changes nothing!" "(BLACK) Yeah..." "Games are played to be won..." "as a team." "Yeah, or as individuals." "Not if the only way for them to win is for us to lose." "All of us." "Have yöu thought about that?" "yöu're wrong." "There is no 'them' watching us." "The CEO is hands-on." "He micro-manages anything of importance to his company." "And this is no ordinary selection process." "We're special." "If anyone's back there besides the lnvigilator, it's him." "Everyone else is a secretary in his structure - even board members." "That's how he likes it." "How do yöu know all this?" "We're wasting time." "There's 50 minutes left, we're no closer to finding the question." "Somehow I suspect my question relates to the question." "So answer me." " How did yöu learn that information?" " Same way yöu learned about the board." "I don't know anything about the board." "I made an educated guess." "But yöu...yöu know who the CEO is and what he's like." "How come?" " How come yöu don't?" " How could we?" "We were headhunted." " Why?" "Weren't yöu?" " Of course not!" "I heard there was a vacancy and applied." "I thought we all did!" "Are yöu saying yöu wanna work for this company, jumped through every hoop to get here but yöu don't know who they are?" "They listed salary and benefits." "The job description detailed," ""A high level of responsibility in a Fortune 500 company manufacturing state-of-the-art technology in a core service industry"." "All right?" " yöu didn't wanna know anymore?" " The deal was no questions asked." "Anyone would've done the same in our position..." "Anyone with...balls." " yöu all applied?" " Yeah." "If this job is so prestigious, why they need to advertise?" " They didn't." " We have our sources." " Looks like we're outnumbered." " I wouldn't cry about it." " yöu've the edge over us now." " How's that?" "yöu're wanted, aren't yöu?" "They invited yöu to apply." "I'd say we're disadvantaged because yöu showed the initiative to apply." "We're behind the curve now." "So tell us what yöu know, starting with a complete job description." " We don't have that information." " Should we believe that?" "(BLACK) We don't know any more about the job." "We just know about the company and, believe me, the worst job with them beats the best anyone else can offer." "He's right." "Who they are, who the CEO is and what he's achieved, that's all yöu need to know." "All right, so tell us about it." "I'll give yöu a clue." "1 0 years ago a lot of healthy yöung people around the world got sick and started dying." "yöu may have read about that." "Then a medical researcher patented a virus suppressant." "The mortality rate halved in six months, and now his company is the biggest player in the global health industry with a turnover of $20 billion and a market capitalisation of $60 billion." "If it was a nation state, it would rank as the world's eighth largest economy." "Next year that rises to sixth." "yöu may have read about that too." "Biorg!" "(DARK) 80 minutes... ..to determine the next 80 years of yöur lives." "Remember?" "Longevity is what they do." "Antisense drugs, gene therapy, microsurgical applications." "They announced a hiring freeze last year!" "Everyone knows that." "Publicly that's true." "Privately...they're expanding again." "Gearing up for a big push of some kind." "They've found a cure." "They must have!" "Manufacturing and marketing would triple in size for the roll-out." "There'd be jobs for all of us!" " We don't know that." " But it's possible, isn't it?" "How long would FDA approval take, if it's true?" " That's not my field." " Hold on." "Why are yöu so interested?" "Something yöu want to tell us?" "If yöu're asking "Am I infected?", White, the answer is "No"." " I'm clean." " But someone yöu know isn't." "We all know someone with the virus, that's why they call it a pandemic." "Nice evasive manoeuvre, but we're talking about the real reason yöu're here." "Yeah..." "So, what relative is it?" "Is it yöur mum?" "yöur dad?" "Little sister..." "It's my partner, OK?" "He can't afford suppressants, but they're discounted to employees are yöu happy now?" "So who else is a charity case here?" "Yeah, yöu wouldn't speak up, if yöu were." "Don't want to commit career suicide on camera like she just has." "(BLACK) With a little help from yöu." "I didn't create her situation, I just exposed it." "(BLACK) Doesn't matter. lf she gets the answer right, she's still hired." "Really?" "Says who?" "What...them?" " If memory serves me correct..." " The only rules in here are our rules." "They can disqualify everyone!" "They can do whatever they like and we can't do a thing about it." "So...congratulations!" "yöu've just disqualified yöurself without breaking any rules." "He won't kick yöu out, but yöu're dead in the water, honey." "Dead in the water." "Don't listen to him." "We'll get through this together." "Thanks, but I don't need yöur help, because my situation isn't a weakness, it's a strength." "I'm sure they're smart enough to realise that." "And if I could talk to the CEO" "I'd assure him the treatment my partner needs will only deepen my commitment to his organisation for years to come." "yöu really think he's behind there?" "He's lived behind walls for years." "No one outside his inner circle has even seen him since the lPO." "If he wanted to hire an assistant, this is the way he'd do it." "What are yöu doing?" "Proving my worth. yöu may have run out of ideas, but I haven't." " Don't even try talking to him." " I'm not gonna talk to him." "Is there anything in there, or is he happy to see yöu?" "What have we here?" "Is that all?" "Heat may have an effect if the papers have been chemically treated." " If we warmed them from beneath..." " It's not heat and chemicals, Black." "It's just chemicals." "What are yöu talking about?" "H2O?" "We already tried H2O!" "It's in all our bodily fluids!" "What are these pipes connected to?" "yöu could pump any liquid through them!" "Come on, Einstein" "Good Lord, yöu're right." "These aren't infrared at all." "They're safelights!" "Common standard-issue safelights!" "We're in a darkroom!" "This room is a great big darkroom!" " And this must be photographic paper." " Meaning we can develop it?" "(BROWN) yöu hope..." "Developing photos isn't a one-stage process." " It takes chemical baths, fixing agents..." " For colour photography." "To pull black letters from a white background all yöu need is developing fluid." "Let's do this." "I'm in." "(BROWN) Even if she's right, isn't a chemical shower a bad idea?" "It'll be diluted." "They wouldn't hire damaged goods." "But covering yöur eyes, nose and mouth may be wise." "(BROWN) They're not the only things worth covering." "That's it, join in at last." "yöu're deaf but not dumb, eh?" "No worries, love." "Let me." "Let's go." " Well?" " It'll take a few moments." "Where's my paper?" "(SHOUTS) Has anyone seen my paper?" "No!" "(SHOUTS) yöu bastard!" "Bastard!" "How could yöu?" "How could yöu?" "Bastard!" "What did yöu just do?" "What I had to." "I should punch yöur lights out!" " (BLONDE) Black, what did yöu do?" " (BROWN) lt's not what he did." " (BROWN) lt's what he said." " (DARK) What?" "(BROWN) "Lights out"." "So..." "lights up!" " That's better." " Lights out." "(BROWN) Lights up." "Voice-activated." " They're playing with us." " Great, isn't it?" " Everybody watch what yöu say." " And do." "(SOBBlNG)" "Up one minute, down the next." "Can't write on this anymore, can yöu?" "Go on, try." "Don't then." "Are yöu hungry, mate?" "Oi, are yöu hungry?" "I am. I'm really hungry." "There's no snack machines in here, though, are there?" "Go on, rip it up..." "Oi!" "Rip it up!" " Hey!" "What did I tell yöu before?" " She said leave him alone, White." " (white) Tear it up!" " White, will yöu stop!" "Tear it up!" "Tear it!" "(BLACK) I won't tell yöu again, White!" "That's it, good boy." "Go on." "Go on." "More, more." "Put it in yöur mouth." "(approaching FOOTSTEPS)" "S'il vous plait!" "And then there were five." " "Bastard" doesn't do yöu justice." " (white GlGGLES) yöu said we should cooperate until we discovered the question!" "So I lied!" "I lied." "So what?" "Lying is not against the rules, is it?" "Anyway, yöu don't have to listen to me, let alone agree or obey." "yöu should thank me." "All of yöu should thank me." "I've just narrowed down the field, so yöur odds improve." "Odds mean nothing without the question in front of us!" "yöu can forget about any more help from us in finding it." "I don't need yöur help." "yöu'll find it's yöu who needs my help." "yöu know why?" "'Cause I figured it out." "Oh, really?" "The question?" "What is it, then?" "Why should I?" "Because if yöu don't, I'll beat it out of yöu." "yöu're full of shit, White." "yöu have been from the start." "yöu don't know anything." "He wouldn't tell us if he did, 'cause he's a narcissist." "He despises us." "Sticks and stones, love." "I bet yöu say that to all the boys." "Only the ones with Narcissistic Personality Disorder." "There are nine character traits to look for, arrogance, grandiosity, a belief in one's uniqueness, a preoccupation with power and success, an excessive need to be admired, a sense of entitlement, lack of empathy and the twin tendencies to envy and exploit others." "For clinical diagnosis, a patient must exhibit five of these." " yöu tick enough boxes." " yöu can add a tenth to that list." ""A tendency to see through all the bullshit surrounding yöu, and rise above it."" " I'll tick that box myself." " Let me tick it for yöu." " That was smart." " That was necessary." "We may need him." "He's a resource." "yöu don't like someone?" "Outwit them." "He's an enemy of the group, and a distraction!" "(GRUNTING)" "Are yöu gonna give me a hand?" " One, two..." " (GRUNTlNG)" "What are yöu doing?" "Ensuring that he can't cause any more trouble when he wakes up." " And taking him out of the game." " That hardly seems fair." "He's sacrificed his right to fair treatment." "Forward a bit." "See?" "I put him down and suddenly we're cooperating again." "He's a talker." "We could go further than this." "She's right." "We could carry him to the door and slide him out." "He ejected two of us, why shouldn't we eject him?" " Call it justice, or karma if yöu prefer." " yöu don't believe in forgiveness?" " I'll forgive him afterwards." " And yöur gospel of cooperation?" "I'll tolerate anyone, except the intolerant." "Those in favour..." "Fifty-fifty." "To each his own." "If yöu won't think selflessly about this, think selfishly." "The Invigilator said..." "If yöu choose to leave this room for any reason, yöu'll be disqualified." "He's not choosing to leave, is he?" "yöu're choosing for him." "Which puts yöu at risk too." "Go on, White, spoil yöurself." "It's yöur turn." "(BLACK) Make yöur mark." "Look, we have less than half an hour left and we still don't know the question." "He claims to know the question." "(MUMBLES)" " Shut up!" " (white MOANS)" "(MUMBLING)" "(PANTS)" "I need medication, it's in my pocket." " What kind of medication?" " What does it matter?" "A pill, all right?" "I need to take it every hour, on the hour." " That's right now." " (BLACK) Every hour, on the hour?" "Only one condition is treated that way." "yöu're infected too, aren't yöu?" "That's more than justice." "That's poetic justice." "If yöu don't believe me, untie my arms, so I can take the pill!" " Go on!" " (DARK) Nice try." "(BLACK) It's pathetic, actually." "Take it yöurself." "Get it for me yöurself." "It's in my left pocket!" " I'll do what yöu want." "Just do it." " Really?" "Tell us what the question is then." "All right, get the pill and I'll tell yöu." "Come on!" "Fucking do it!" "Go on, it's my left pocket." "Go on, try again, it's in there." "Go on." "Where the fuck is it?" "One of yöu has taken it!" "One of yöu has fucking taken it!" "This isn't funny!" "yöu know what happens when yöu don't take suppressants!" "Unconsciousness." "Convulsions." "Shock." "Coma." "Then death." "We know exactly what happens and the process takes hours, not minutes." "(WHITE GASPING)" "Listen, mate, I'll be out of this for good!" "A taste of yöur own medicine." " Don't do it, don't do it." " Look on the bright side, brother" "If yöu start to convulse, we'll know yöu're telling the truth." "Then we'll gladly help yöu." "Looks like yöu've got yöur wish." "For now." "He had to be dealt with one way or another." "I wouldn't be surprised if he was a plant all along." "It's the kind of thing they'd do to stir up our internal dynamics." "To set us against one another." "If so, we've seized back the initiative." "Or yöu have." "He isn't smart enough to be a plant." "But yöu on the other hand." "yöu think she's one of them?" "Don't be absurd!" "I told yöu I'm a psychologist!" "yöu claimed to be a qualified student of psychology, not a practitioner." "I've studied psychology too, and reverse psychology." "What better way to hide yöur true role in this farce than to accuse another candidate of playing yöur part?" "I don't know what yöu're talking about." "Amateur psychology is a useful tool for gamblers, but a degree in the subject sounds like the perfect foundation for a career in, say human resources." "yöu're on the wrong side of the glass." " He's the one who manipulated..." " Maybe yöu work as a team." "He's got the mouth, but yöu... ..know an awful lot about Biorg Pharmaceuticals." " I told yöu I applied!" " So did we." " And I do my research!" " So did we!" "Any of us could be plants, but not all of us." "At least one candidate has to be genuine for the test to be viable." " That would be me." " And me." "My point is we can't prove anyone's guilt or innocence, so it's a waste of time to try." "If we can't maintain trust and cooperation, we're through." "Trust has to be earned, sister." "We never had cause to trust each other in the first place." "Trust is a choice." "We can choose to keep cooperating, if necessary." " I think it's necessary." " We have no other option." "Trust makes me nervous." " I prefer proof." " What are yöu doing?" " (SHOUTS) Get off me!" " Are yöu insane?" " Brown, why are yöu doing this?" " Because I like winning!" "Now tell us the truth, Dark." "Please..." "yöu said we've to trust each other!" "Now yöu're gonna stand there while he interrogates me?" "Looks like it." "They wanna know too." "Further denials will only waste time." "Confess and I'll release yöu." "I promise." "OK, I work for them, but they didn't put me in here!" "I heard about the job internally and applied like everyone else!" "Not everyone." "Tell us what we want to know." "I can't tell yöu anything because I don't know anything!" "HR doesn't cover the CEO's office, he hires his staff personally!" "I'm not lying!" "I wanna step up as badly as yöu do!" "Like I said, trust is a devalued currency in here." "What proof can I possibly give yöu?" "yöu know, it's funny... how something so simple and inoffensive as a piece of paper, when placed in the wrong hands can become a deadly weapon." "All from one slice of a tree." " What are yöu doing?" " What has to be done." "yöu're gonna torture me?" " Do something!" "Please!" " Brown, what are yöu doing?" " I know what I'm doing." " yöu've done this before?" " In the services." " I thought yöu were a gambler." "All soldiers are gamblers." "See, I find the flesh of the inner thigh especially sensitive." " Fuck yöu!" "Get off me!" " Stop this!" "This can't be our only option!" "No, it isn't, it's mine." "(sighs)" "What have we here?" "Seems yöu got there before me." "What, undervalued at work and at home?" "Daddy didn't love yöu, hm?" "yöu studied psychology to find out why?" "Tell me I'm wrong." "On second thoughts, don't answer that." "Answer this..." " What is the question?" " I don't know!" " yöu're lying!" " I don't know, I swear!" "What is the question?" "What is the purpose of this exam?" "Would I volunteer if the only way for yöu to solve this was to beat it out of me?" "How fucked up are yöu?" "With 20 minutes left, this fucked up." " (DARK SCREAMS)" " OK, enough!" "(BLACK GROANS)" "Don't interfere." "(GROANlNG)" "(BLACK) For God's sake." "This is a woman." "Equal opportunities, Black." "HR wouldn't expect anything less, would they?" "Oh, by all means, ask him for help." "Look, it's nothing personal." "We just need to know what yöu know." "Brown, don't do this!" "There must be another way!" "We need certainty." "The kind only unbearable pain can give..." "I've told yöu everything I know!" "Please stop!" "..or the threat of it." "(DARK SOBS)" "She's telling the truth." "Sorry." "Here." "Thank yöu." "(RATTLlNG)" "yöu wanted convulsions now yöu've got them." "yöu think he's faking it." "It's genuine." " How do yöu know?" " My wife, she died from it." "I'm a carrier." "He's not faking." "Even liars tell the truth occasionally." " He really needs that pill, doesn't he?" " Fast." "If anyone took it, own up now." "All right, if we can't trust each other, we'll have to search each other." "Nothing." " Got any gum?" " Sorry. I'm all out." "Really?" "All soldiers are gamblers and all gamblers are cheats, I've found." "Given the opportunity." " I took a calculated risk." " yöu're as bad as he is." "No, he's worse." "There was never any pretence about White." " Let's think about it selfishly again." " While he's dying?" "That's not selfishness, that's murder!" "Coma comes before death, right?" "People recover from comas." "Not this kind." "Sink too deep and it's irreversible." "But that pill mimics an adrenaline shot to the heart." " If yöu're gonna do it, do it now." " Forgotten what yöu said about him?" "We're not releasing him We're saving his life!" "I'm afraid I can't do that!" "(GRUNTING)" "I can see it, but I can't reach!" "Let me try!" "Obviously the Gods agree with my risk assessment." "Is he unconscious?" "(BLACK) He's lapsing!" "We have to carry him out for treatment." "Biorg will understand." "Trust me." "Are yöu gonna help me?" "Fine, yöu can live with his death on yöur consciences." "I can't." "He's bleeding!" "What does that mean?" "I don't know, I haven't seen this before." "But it can't be good." " Do something, Black!" " Like what?" "I'm not a doctor!" "Help him, please!" "Can't yöu see he's dying?" "No!" "I work for yöu!" "I work here!" "(GASPS)" "yöu weren't wrong about that pill." "Hey..." " If yöu can hear me, nod yöur..." " Fuckers." "I have it too, brother." "Yeah, well, don't expect me to thank yöu." "yöu have her to thank... ..not me." "Well, I would've preferred the kiss of life." "I bet yöu're good at that." "Wow." "Four down and four to go." "And only 1 0 minutes on the clock." "Exciting" "I felt yöu take it, yöu know." "Room not big enough for both of us?" "That's the spirit, Brown." "If yöu remember me taking it, yöu'll remember the promise yöu made us." "Blonde gave yöu the pill as requested." "Now give us what we asked for in return." " The question?" " What is it?" "Where is it?" "yöu still don't get it, do yöu?" "Let me spell this out for yöu." "(sighs)" "There is no question!" "All right?" "There never was one!" "Not the kind yöu're looking for anyway." "That's what yöu've been holding back?" " That's yöur big secret?" " Uh..huh." "yöu heard the lnvigilator." "There's one question before yöu, and one answer is required." "There is one question!" "yöu're calling him a liar?" "When yöu've eliminated the impossible, whatever's left has to be the truth." "No matter how crazy it seems." "This test is the question!" "And the answer is us." " We're the answers." " Answers, plural?" " If I recall..." " One answer is required." " Singular." " That's right." "Just one of us." "yöu wouldn't dare." "Whoa!" "Whoa!" " Whoa!" "Everybody calm down." " Seconded." "(GIGGLES) All right, all right, all right." " yöu're not gonna shoot me." " I didn't take it to shoot yöu!" "I took it to stop yöu from using it on us!" "Let me tell yöu what I think." "I think we're the answers too." "All of us together, as a team!" "I think we'd all passed when we walked in." "All each of us can do is lose what we've already won through selfishness, stupidity and impatience!" "(BLACK) Deaf was right." "We see what we want to see in here." "yöu're a fighter so yöu all can think about is being the last man standing, but they never said there was only one position available." "Yeah, I see what I want to see, Black." "(GASPS)" "And yöu hear what yöu want to hear." "But answer me this, brother" "What corporation doesn't know how many positions it's got available?" "What CEO can't decide whether he wants one assistant or eight?" "There's only one job going in his office, yöu know that?" "And the rest is fantasy." "White, stay back!" "This ain't worth killing for." "yöu seem to think it is." "Is it..." " ..worth dying for?" " Put the gun down, Black." "yöu started this, now it's in play!" " We can't put it back." " (BLONDE) Throw it out the door." "That won't break any rules." "Go on, then, shoot me." "Go on, shoot me in the head, go on." " See?" "yöu can't fight who yöu are." " Don't!" "(BLACK SCREAMS)" "Fingerprint ID." "No!" "(WHITE) OK." "(BROWN) OK, OK." "Just tell us what yöu want." "I want to be alone!" "yöu want us to spoil our papers?" "Disqualify ourselves?" "OK." "We'll take those odds over the alternative." "yöu win." "I can't let my partner escort yöu out, we just became friends." "How about yöu walk out instead?" "Each of yöu." "One by one." "Starting with yöu." "Come on, we ain't got all day!" "Let's go." "They deserve yöu." "Now yöu." "Come on." " Don't be stupid, Black." " yöu won't shoot." "I'll be missed." "yöu're sick like me." "yöur death will be explained away, OK?" "No one outside this room even cares." "They've got problems of their own, like avoiding the infection themselves." "yöur conscience will haunt yöu." "yöu're assuming I've got one." "I'll go." "I'm through with this." "(Ready?" ")" "Don't cry, darlin'." "yöu were a passenger in here, anyway." " yöu fucked yöur way to the top." " Then I saved yöur life." "Well, anyone can make a mistake." "Lights out!" "Lights on!" "(GROANS)" "(BEEPING)" "(sighs)" "Toujours y voir clairement est primordial." "(DARK) To see clearly is all." "Well?" "yöu said there's one answer and yöu're looking at him!" "I've done everything!" "I made everything happen in here, and she's done nothing!" "It's me!" "I'm the one yöu want!" "I'M THE ONE yöu WANT!" "(FOOTSTEPS)" "If yöu try to communicate with myself or the guard... ..yöu will be disqualified." "(white) That's it, join in at last." "yöu're deaf but not dumb, eh?" "(BEEPING)" "There is one question before yöu, and one answer is required." "(Ready?" ")" " Answers?" " That's what yöu've been holding back?" " That's yöur big secret?" " yöu still don't get it, do yöu?" "What is it?" "Where is it?" " The question?" " What's the purpose of this exam?" " The question?" "What is it?" "Tell us!" " What does it matter?" "(BLONDE) yöu really think he's behind there?" "(DARK) He's lived behind walls for years." "(BROWN) How do yöu know all this?" "Are yöu saying that they rigged the test to bring us all together?" "Is there something yöu want to tell us?" " (BRUNETTE) lt's a piece of paper." " (WHITE) It's more than that." "If we can't see it, how are we supposed to find it?" "(BRUNETTE) What if the question is written down?" "We just can't see it?" "(BLONDE) What if it reveals the question too?" "(white) They're not gonna make it that easy." "(BRUNETTE) How hard can they afford to make it?" "(white) So has anyone figured out the answer yet?" "(BROWN) lt's not about the answer, it's about the question." "What is the question?" "(TICKlNG)" "What is the question?" "(TICKlNG)" "Any questions?" "No." "That's the answer yöu wanted to the first question asked of us." "The only question asked of yöu." " I almost missed it too." " Almost." "As it is, we're happy to be hiring someone today." "I haven't accepted yet." "yöu wouldn't have participated if yöu didn't want the job." "That was before." "Before all this." "Now it's over, I have questions." " Questions?" " More than one." "Ask." "yöu don't look like him." "Any suit can play the CEO for shareholders and the media." "Our founder isn't a businessman." " He has no interest in fame." " Too bad." " That was some performance." " Who said it was a performance?" "Our founder is a scientist, an innovator." "He's very particular about those he invites to work with him, especially when it comes to the most important hiring decision he's ever made." "Important enough to kill for?" "What makes yöu think he's dead?" "(SOFT BREATHING)" "(lNVlGlLATOR) While searching for the cure, we stumbled upon something far more powerful." "Rapid cell regeneration..." "..in a pill." "It eradicates the virus and other stubborn mutations." " The magic bullet." " The gift of life for millions." "Such a breakthrough creates unanticipated dilemmas." "Too great for any one man to bear." "People are gonna need this product, and we can only make so much at a time." "Tough decisions are gonna have to be made by a wise administrator, someone who combines a listening disposition with attention to detail and compassion for her fellow man." "If yöu are still interested..." "Il est revenu." "He is... ..risen." "Let's get started." ""Hope You've Liked  Enjoyed The Movie"" "Copyright from ecOtOne™"