"I'm sorry." "Tom,itis timefor your daily reminders." "Beginwhenyoulike." "My name is Tom Jacobs." "Born November 12th, 1972." "My parents are Mark and Judith." "My wife is Abby." "I would give anything to hear her say my name right now." "I'm a prisoner of my own creation." "I'm bored again, Minnie." " What would you like to do now, Tom?" "Let's go some place else." " Locating, six minutes to enter." "So, what now?" "I mean, he's in, right?" "This was it." "He was completely blown away." "We don't have to live in that fucking garage anymore, no more scrounging for grant money!" "Remember when I first asked you out, I said," "Trust me when they're going to pay off." "Then you told me you had a boyfriend." "I never said that." "Yeah, you did." "No, I didn't!" " Okay, you're right, I'm wrong." "What is this?" "Open it." "We can't afford this." " Not yet." "We will." "I want you to wear it tonight." "I want you to be there with me." "Both of you." "Five minutes, left." "Tom." " So, we have an offer." "Oh, that's fantastic." " Well, let's not get too excited." "They need to know how accurate the machine is." "For instance, how do we handle false memories?" "The machine acts like a synapse polygraph." "It can tell the difference between real and fake." "The line gets blurry when it comes to brainwashing, but I've got a way around that." "If the person has been brainwashed, and they have a latent memory that brainwashing's taken place so... hypnosis, cult programming, I don't know, bad people drilling things into your head, the machine cross-checks for those moments first, and if it doesn't find them, then the memory's real." "Listen, the client has an idea." "Very simply put, what if you could go into other people's memories?" "What would be the point of that?" " What do you want, possibilities?" "Go into a kid's memory, find out if he'd been abused." "Go into an Alzheimer's ..." "I'm glad we're redefining the machine's function, but Richard, I was clear about what I wanted." "I'm just saying, you could do that, right?" "." "It's irrelevant." "You're my rep, go sell the machine I wanted, not something else." "I tried." "I pitched it." "This was the idea they threw back." "Who threw this back?" " Everyone!" "You are not going to get the kind of money you want unless you're willing to compromise a little bit." "If you want to just help people, you can do that for free." "What was the offer?" "It's unethical!" " It's just a presentation." "You built this machine to help expose trauma." "It's not going to change anything." "It still can do that." " They're just going to let you call the shots?" "To get at what I have?" "Of course they will." " This is how it starts." "We're drowning in debt, we're about to start a family, so what do you want me to do?" " We'll get by." "I don't deserve to just get by!" "Three minutes to render." "450,000 The First of Many" "I come bearing money." "That going to be enough to get you started?" "Yeah, that's going to be enough." "I'd like to know who this investor is." "Someone who knows potential." "At the end of the day, you own the rights, you have control." "Now, he has a couple questions about the changes." "The machine I used seemed to work fine." "Why build a whole other one?" "General upgrades." "The current program requires that an outside user gets you around." "I want you to be able to go anywhere you want to go once you're inside, on your own." "So, I emerge inside the memory..." " Richard, can you hear me?" "Yeah, Tom, I can hear you!" " Isn't that how it works?" "No, not exactly." "We need to be able to sort through the memories from a neutral spot." "So we're creating a virtual command center inside the mind of the patient, a starting point, somewhere to go." "All right, starting zone, what's it going to look like?" " How about this place?" "This house?" "Yeah." "Just as a placeholder, until we get something more involved." "More interesting?" "Yeah." "All right." "Okay, I'll start capturing it." "We're going to need a voice." " I'll do it." "What?" " Why don't we give it a little flair?" "Maybe hire an actress?" "They'll like that." "I'd like it." "You don't think my voice has flair?" " No." "Yay" " Yah" " Yo" "How's that one?" " Works for me, let's just move on to the Z's then we're done." "How's it looking?" " Zah" " Zo" " Zay ..." "Stunning." " I'm talking about the voice, lover boy." "Right, that too." "Your memory is ready, Tom." "Your memory is ready, Tom." " Let's go." "So, I'm in the starting point, I find a memory I want to go to, and I'm there?" "Simple as that?" " Simple as that." "How far can you go inside the memory?" " As far as the memory will allow." "Temporary borders pop up at the memory's edge, a fence that you can't get past." "You shouldn't have to, anyway." "This entire world is an amalgamation of things that actually exist." "Things that the machine randomly generates, anything from everyday items to people." "And as for you, you'll leave no lasting impression on this world." "It's like you're not even there." "Okey, one last question." "How do I get out?" " User extracts you." "Okay, what if something goes wrong?" "We'll work it out." "Minnie?" " Yes, Tom?" "Self-destruct, please." "Self-destructing in five, four ...  ...three,two,one ." "Goodbye, Tom." "Self-destruct has failed, Tom." "I must remind you, I am not evil." "Shall I diagnose it again?" "How long have I been trapped here, Minnie?" " 4 years, 2 months, 2 days." "Are you ready?" "I don't know if I have a life beyond this place." "I don't know if anyone knows I exist." "Daddy come home" "Hello?" "It's Richard." "Hello?" "Tomorrow night?" "We were supposed to have another six weeks, Tom." "There's been some changes, apparently the window on investment is closing." "They need a presentation right now." "There's a laundry list of things we haven't tested." "There's still placeholders in there for God's sakes, unfamiliar faces." " Use yourself." "Okay, what about photos, pictures?" " Details." "Just fill them in with something, anything." "Richard knows we're under the gun." "All right, but I'm objecting, on the record, and saying we should have at least another month to test these." "Well your objection is noted." "Now let's get to work." "Ready?" " Yeah." "I love you." " I love you." "Wait for me." "Where do you want this?" " Just put it down there." "Who is this?" "Who's your investor?" "It's uh, complicated." "Complicated?" "Then uncomplicate it, Richard." "Who the hell's the investor?" "Arthur Kennison, Department of Corrections." "The idea is, you go into the memories of an accused man, see if he did the crime or not." "Assured culpability." "Is this something they volunteer for?" "No." "If it works, it would be mandatory." "Bravo on the fucking 180, pal." " Let's just all relax ..." " I can pack this up in 10 minutes." "Stay out of this." " I know who signed my fucking checks." "I trusted you." "You knew who the client was all along and kept your mouth shut for six months." " I told you, it's someone who sees potential." "That's not a lie." "I am trying to give you a chance." " Bullshit, you're giving yourself a chance." "Maybe I want a chance." "Maybe I want an opportunity to be part of something great." "You got to understand something." "You're not the only one working on this." "You're the first, but how long does that last?" "I had a vision of this thing, but this is not it." " This is not about your vision." "It's about control!" "You honestly think you could take these people's money with no consequence?" "How long have you been working on this?" "Think about that." "Think about your family, Tom." "Mr. Jacobs?" "Are we going to do this?" "Let's begin." "Who are we entering?" " We picked him up a few weeks ago." "His name is Anthony Willis." "Son of some two-bit retired mob middleman." "What'd he do?" " Kid's a verifiable junkie." "One day he's at home shooting up, gets a text from his girlfriend, drives over to her sister's house, and kills her." "Allegedly." "Says he blacked out." "You make sense of this guy's mind, then you'll have my attention." "You force him to come here?" " Force him?" "He jumped at the chance to volunteer." "He's a perfect guinea pig." "Willing and expendable." "Seems like a super guy." "It's just a sedative." "The whole process won't hurt a bit." "Maybe not for me." "It's a wild ride up there." "Just give it a few seconds." "Why put him out?" " Sedating him will help keep things stable." "Tom?" "We're just about ready." "I'm going to need those details." "If the program works, it should tell me what happened, no?" "We're looking for an exact memory amongst millions." "I'm going to need something." "All right, I'll bite." "Kid's case file." "An anonymous tip came in, someone saw his pickup truck pull over by a bridge near the murder scene around 2 a.m." "About an hour after we estimated she died." "We searched the area and found the murder weapon with his prints." "Let's get started." "That all right?" "Good luck." "Tom, can you hear me?" "Tom, can you hear me?" "Tom, can you hear me?" "I can hear you." " Minnie, can you hear me?" "Welcome, Tom." "My name is Minnie." "What would you like to do?" "Minnie, put up everything I see on the main screen." " As you wish, Tom." "Coming through crystal clear." " Good." "Minnie, locate memories with the following descriptions:" "Adrienne; murder;" "Regan." "Locating." "One memory found with these specifics." "Take me there, Minnie." "From Adrienne 703-244-0212 Message:" "I can't be more in your life anymore." "Received on:" "12:31pm, April 25 2013" "I'm in." "Adrienne, open up!" "That doesn't look familiar." " The placeholder." "The machine will fill in the gaps." "How long until something ..." "I'm sorry." "Minnie, what percentage of this memory is real?" " Processing." "Background authenticity accounts for 17%." "It's weak but not abnormal for that." "What about his actions?" "95% - 95." "It's extremely solid for memory." "Dad,somethingbadhappened." "The memory has ended, Tom." "Now that's how we pieced it together." "Kid took a methadone hit to calm down, called dad, left the scene, and ditched the gun." "So he was lying about not remembering?" "He may not have consciously remembered." "Long blackouts are not unusual for addicts." "Which may also explain why he's so convinced he's innocent." "I got to say I'm very impressed, Tom." "Gary, get me out of here." "Goodbye, Tom." "What the hell?" "Welcome Tom." "What you want to do now?" "Gary, I'm back in the hub." "That's weird." "Let's try that again." "Goodbye, Tom." "Welcome, Tom." "What would you like to do now?" "It didn't work." "What is going on?" "What is happening?" " The extraction isn't working ..." "Just fix it!" "Says some kind of miscommunication ..." "He's working on it." "Tom just put the whole thing away." "Let's figure this out later." "All right, and no "I told you so" when I get out." " Like hell." "Minnie, self-destruct." " Are you sure?" "Yeah." "Self-destructing in five, four, three, two, one ..." "Goodbye, Tom." "When does he wake up?" " It should be now." "It self-destructed." "Chip comes apart, disintegrates in the bloodstream." "Yeah, it's gone." "So why is he still out?" "Tom, can you hear me?" "Tom can you hear me?" "Tom?" "He's not listening to me." "I didn't do it." "You were shooting up." "You took the gun from her hand ..." "Look at it, Anthony." "Look at what you've done." "I didn't do this!" " Shut up!" "You've been spinning on wheels for three days." "Confess already!" "You took the gun, you put it to her head, and you fucking blew her away, BAM!" "You have visitors." "Hi, Dad." "You look thin." "Been eating?" "Yeah, you know." "I wanted to drop this off." "Cleared out the attic, found some pictures." "Thanks." "They started a carpentry class here last week." "I've been going to that." "It's real interesting." "I can see myself doing that." "You look really thin." "You said that already, Dad." "I'm not using, if that's what you think." "They're cracking down, you can't even slip it in anymore." "That's what you say, Anthony, but ..." " I don't believe this." "What are you doing?" " Satisfied?" "Don't you cop an attitude with me, boy." "Your job in here is to clean up." "I did it." "Don't you fuck it up." "I give you my word." "Doesn't that mean anything?" "Not to me." "It's always good talking to you, Dad." "Sit!" "Just sit!" "Dad, how do I get him to sit?" " I told you, Anthony." "Repetition." "If you want to get that dog to sit, you got to push his ass down while you keep repeating it." "Sit!" "Boy, give me the 9/16"." "That's 5/8"." " That's 5/8"." "I'm sorry." "You know, we got to think about buying your mom a birthday present." "A car?" " A car?" "Yeah." " Are you crazy?" "Minnie, how many times have I been in this memory?" " 430 times." "430 times." "Must be the allure of music." "What's the date out there, anyway?" " July 15th." "Shit, we missed the fireworks." "Tomorrow we're going to have to track down some sort of celebratory event." "Picnic, barbecue ..." "What do you think?" "I do not understand the query, Tom." "Of course not." "I'd like that, though." "Sit!" "Anthony, I told you a hundred times, that dog is dumb as shit." "Go get your old man a beer." "Minnie, what the hell was that?" "He looked right at me." "He saw me!" "That is not possible, Tom." " Don't tell me it's impossible, he saw me." "Anthony." "Anthony!" "Look at me!" "Thank you, my boy." "Am I going crazy here, Minnie?" "He saw me, I know he did." "Your theory is impossible." "Start the memory over." "Start from right before he asks for the beer." "Restarting." "Sit!" "Anthony, I told you a hundred times, that dog is dumb as shit." "Go get your old man a beer." "Anthony!" "Look at me!" "Can you see me?" "Anthony!" "Thank you, my boy." "He was looking at me, Minnie, I know he was." "He was looking right at me." "The process has been repeated three times." "Your theory does not seem plausible." "What was it that was so special about that particular memory?" "What was so special at that specific time?" "Minnie, what time was it when I claimed that Anthony spotted me?" "I cannot verify the precise time that memory took place." "No, the real time, in reality." "The time was 4:15, July 15th." "I want you to show me the memory of what Anthony was doing at that exact time." "Scanning short-term memory." "Look!" "You see me right now, Anthony?" "Lights out in five minutes." "He was thinking about that memory." "He was thinking about the memory at the same time that I was in it." "An active memory." "That's how he saw me, Minnie." " I can not verify your theory, Tom." "You don't have to verify it." "Anthony's Photos" "We need to meet him again." "Minnie, I need to see the memory he thinks of the most." " I can not locate memories by frequency of access." "What about discussion of frequency, any mention of things he can't stop thinking about ... a therapy session, a confessional?" "Locating." "I think about it all the time." "I was hanging out with a friend of mine." "A part-time dealer named Eric Lowe." "A real loose character." "Take me to this memory, Minnie." "I was desperate for a fix." "I needed some cash, and I had only one place I knew I could get it." "How much longer we got to wait here?" "I gotta get this truck back to my brother, or he's going to knock the fucking shit out of me." "There he goes." " You sure he's got it with him?" "Yeah, he's coming from his bookie." "All right." "What the fuck is that?" "You going to jack him with your shoe?" " Give it to me then." "Fuck off." " Give it to me!" "Take it." "Fucking asshole." " Easy, boss." "Let's fucking do it." "Money." "Hand it over." " Do you know who you're fucking with?" "No." "Why don't you tell me who I'm fucking with?" "Don't make me cut you open, old man." "What the fuck are you doing?" " What the fuck are you doing?" "I want to see your face before I blow it up, you dumb fuck." " Dad." "Dad?" "That day haunts me." "How low he knew I'd sunk." "I'd start thinking about Adrienne." "What kind of person I can be when I'm controlled by the things I'm controlled by." "Despite the evidence, my history, the cops, my own father ..." "I can't see myself doing it." "Not to her." "Nobody can see that but me." "Fuck if that's not agony." "Anthony ..." "I didn't earn it." " I'm giving it to you because I want you to earn it." "Consider this a contribution to the new you." "You've reached the end of this memory, Tom." "What would you like to do now?" "We wait here." "Keep repeating this memory until he shows up." "Hey, Minnie, how long have I been here?" " Two weeks, Tom." "You see me." "You see me, don't you?" "Do you recognize me?" "My name is Tom, Tom Jacobs." "Do you remember me?" "I know you can hear me." "Minnie, you're seeing this, right, I'm not ahllucinating?" " Yes, Tom." "I know you can hear me." "Come on, speak to me." "What did you say?" "Enough." "What did you say?" "Talk to me." " I said, enough!" "What the hell's the matter with you?" "Anthony?" "Anthony!" "Anthony!" "What would you like to do now, Tom?" "We keep waiting." "Welcome back." "Can you hear me?" " Yeah." "Yeah." "Good." "Good, that's great." "It's very important that you understand everything that I'm about to say." "I've been trapped in here for over four years." "My wife's name is Abby Jackobs." "I can still remember her last number." "If you want me out of here, Anthony, then I need you to call her and tell her where I am." "She's not going to believe you, so I'm going to tell you everything you need to say to her." "If we get cut off, all you need to do is just think of this place, and I'll be here waiting." "Abby." "Abby?" "Abby!" "?" "You okay?" " Yeah, I just got lost in my thoughts for a second." "I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but this is our third date, you know?" "Maybe it's just a misfire." "No, I just had a bit of a day." "Bear with me?" "You know what?" "Let's reschedule." "I will check in at work, and I will give you a call." "All right?" " That'd be great." "Hello?" " Is this Abby Jacobs?" "Yes, this is." "My name is Anthony Willis." "Can I help you?" "I spoke to your husband." "Creep." "Hey, look, if you're trying to be funny, maybe we can get the police in on this joke." "Your father died of a stroke when you were 23." "Tom was your boyfriend at the time." "You told him you couldn't bear to watch your father be put in a box, so you ran off to the beach." "When Tom showed up, you told him to go, but he wouldn't." "You hid under blankets, and he talked to you until the sun went down." "At two in the morning, that's where he asked you." "And you told him he had the worst timing you'd ever seen." "You asked him why he'd ever want a nut like you ..." "And he said, he'd take whatever he could get, as long as it was you." "Even the smallest fragment ... would be enough." "I can see everything you do seconds after you do it, in short-term memory." "She believed you." "Which means that she's going to come down here to see you." "Now there's still a few things that I need you to tell her." "I think I know what went wrong that day, and how to fix it." "Anthony, I know everything about you." "You played soccer as a kid." "You were named after your uncle." "Your friend gave you your first vicodin when you were just 14 years old." "I've seen the best and the worst of you." "I've seen your crimes." "I've also seen regret." "This is your chance to do the right thing." "Will you help me?" "You think I want you roaming around in here?" "I want to believe you." "I do." "Maybe there's another way to explain what you know." "So I have a question." "If you can really speak to him, you should be able to answer me." "What do you want to know?" "His nickname for me." " Ma'am, you've got five minutes." "Thank you." "Are you still there?" "I can't just speak to him." "We have a place where we meet." "I'm sure he's watching this memory right now, about to give me the answer." "He can see all of this?" " Yes, he can see anything I can see." "This is his daughter, Donna." "Take me to the meeting place, Minnie." " Locating." "Can you see him or not?" " I don't see him yet." "I don't know what I'm doing here." " Wait." "If you were trying to make a fool out of me, you succeeded." " Wait, just give me a second!" "Birdie!" "He calls you Birdie." "I could live in that memory forever." "All right, write this down." "If I'm still here, it means the chip is still physically inside you." "My guess is a malfunction during the self-destruct damaged the chip." "I looked, though." "It was gone." " Not all of it, according to Tom." "Why didn't it come up on the reader?" "The reader traces the chips by the metallic elements that comprise them." "The chips of my prototype were made of sililcone." "The new chips were upgraded to monocrystalline, that's why it didn't read." "In all the rush, I never reprogrammed the damn reader." "It would've taken me minutes." "It's not your fault." " So what now?" "I got clearance to get Tom out of the hospital." " What about Anthony?" "It's Richard." " It's Richard?" "He still has an in at the department of corrections." "He said he'd help." " Hey." "Yeah, Abby, it's Richard." "Listen, I just spoke with him." "He's not going for it." "I couldn't get him to budge." " So what does this mean, it's over?" "No, I said I couldn't get him to budge." " I don't understand." "I'm saying even I have my priorities." "I'm going to send you his information." " You corner him, Abby." "Nobody is going to fight for your husband the way you will." "I've got a ranch nearby." "I guess I could put in for a prison transfer, have him sequestered there overnight, get a few guards who won't talk." "If I was properly motivated." "What does that mean?" "The machine, Mrs. Jacobs." "How about you sign it over to me?" "I understand this might be a difficult decision for you." "Well then, you know nothing about me." "Get it done." "I've got to be honest." "It's kind of hard being comfortable, knowing you may be watching." "If you get out, you've got to promise to keep a few things quiet." "I mean, it gets kind of lonely in this cell sometimes." "I don't want people judging me, you know." "Yeah." "You know what?" "I hate this fucking place." "How about we pick another spot?" "Come on, you big baby, come with me." " Nobody's stopping you." "So you're just going to sit around and do nothing?" "Maybe I just want to sit here and watch you." "Fine." "Last chance." "Come on, you big baby!" "Get in." "Come on." "Took you long enough." "Nice place." "A weekend getaway we got." "I think we'd been going out about four months by this point." "Have you been here before?" "It's hard to tell." "The line kind of got blurry." "I'm not sure what's mine and what's yours anymore." "This one's definitely mine." "This is a, uh... better place." "Remember the last time we met?" "You said it wouldn't hurt a bit." "It's been hurting ever since." "Why'd you build this thing, man?" "I don't know anymore." "I think I was going to help people." "Let them revisit the past, to deal with their traumas." "Make the world a better place." "Cliche, huh?" "Somewhere along the way, I kind of lost my focus." "This became less about what I put into it, and more about what I got out of it." "You regret it?" "Every day." "Can't change the past." "But hey, maybe that's your next invention." "I'd buy a ticket." "I'm leaving tonight." "They're taking me out of this place." " Just like that?" "Where the hell are you going?" "They're going to hold me up some place for the procedure." "Said it's all painless, just, uh... computers and machines doing most of the work." "So I just got to be there for the night, then I'm out the next day." "If he tries anything, we're within earshot." "And then what?" "Transfer to another prison." " Wonderful." "That's just fucking great." " This guy needs my help." "I told you years ago, Anthony, not to volunteer for this program." "I was trying to prove my innocence." ""Your innocence."" "That night you called me, you told me everything." "You may not remember, but I do." "Dad!" "Something bad happened." "I had to hitch a ride to pick up your sorry ass." "I had to watch my own son OD in the backseat while I cleaned up his fucking mess." "I kept my mouth shut to the cops for you." "You know, you were doing just fine right where you are." "Now they're taking you to God-knows-where." " I'm not going to start up again." "Don't sell me your bullshit, Anthony." "All it takes is one slip-up, one corrupt system, and you're back to your old habits." "I'm trying to do a good thing!" "You haven't done a good thing in your entire life." "And now you're all angry, aren't you?" "And I'm such a bad father, because I don't believe you?" "I pulled your ass out of the fire more times than I can remember, but I'm done now, Anthony." "You may hate me." "But everything I've done..." "I've done for you." "You really still believe you're innocent?" "I do." "Prove it." "Shit." "He was right." "So what's this, then?" "This is what I need to build." "Every chip has a source frequency." "This will send out a signal every quarter of a second to retrieve that frequency." "Once we lock on to Tom's signal, we're going to need you to tell us what memory he's in, and tell him to stay there." "We'll filter that memory through the console, bring Tom's body in, and make the swap." "You sure this is going to work?" "Well Richard, your guess is as good as mine, and that's the best we've got." "How long?" "We'll start within the hour." "The whole process shouldn't take more than four hours, total." "Actually ... it may take a bit longer than that." "What do you mean?" "You need me." "I've got a request for Tom." "I know he'll probably see this." "Tom, I feel I've been more than accommodating, wouldn't you agree?" "I have something I want from you." "I want to find out what happened the night of the murder." "I saw what happened." "You killed your girlfriend." "There's something else from that night, something the cops shrugged off as me trying to save my own ass." "I want to prove myself." "I want to prove them wrong." "We don't have time for this." " Make time!" "I want to make sure he's listening first." "I want to make sure he's on board." "Tom ..." "I'll be waiting to hear your response." "You lied to me." "You want me in here for the rest of your life?" "You killed her, isn't that enough?" " I've done a lot of horrible things, but I'm no killer." "Why start with her?" " Maybe she broke up with you, you were on a bender, maybe in your fucked-up state, you let her have it." "What do you mean "maybe"?" "I thought you could see everything!" " I can see actions, not emotions." "Then all you're seeing is a fucking picture-book." "You don't know how I feel, you don't know what she meant to me." "You can't bluff me, Anthony." "You're no angel." "Every time you got angry, every time you swung after a few drinks, every time you threatened someone, I saw that." "And those are actions!" " Who the hell doesn't have skeletons in their closet?" "All you know is my history, not me." "I know myself." "Really?" "What part of yourself do you know?" "There's the guy I'm talking to right now, then there's the guy with a needle in his arm." "The cops think you did it." "Your father thinks you did it." "Fuck, I think you did it." "So what, we're all wrong?" "The evidence is wrong?" "I'm wrong?" "You did it, Anthony." "So, what's the point?" "The point is, there is something else that happened that night." "An incident with another man." "I want to fill in the gaps, I want to find out who he is." "Chasing down a random memory is a needle in a haystack." " I'll tell you everything I can remember ..." "I'll guide you through it." " Even if someone else was there, the fact remains, you killed her." "Not accidentally." "Not in self-defense." "When the ends are this gruesome, do the means really matter?" " They matter to me." "Did you think there wouldn't be a price for your freedom, Tom?" "I guess I thought I was dealing with a decent man." "We all make mistakes now, don't we?" "I may be a guinea pig to people like you, but from here on out, you're going to do what I say, 'cause I'm your only chance of going home." "You've got until the morning, before I get transferred." "If you want my help, you help me first." "Abby, there's been a slight delay." "No cause for alarm." "Tom's there?" " Yeah, he got here about an hour ago." "Good." "Just sit tight, and I'll call you when it clears up here." "Okay." "Let's begin." "Tell me about Adrienne." "Anything you can." "We were together for two years." "She wasn't exactly a piece of cake from the start." "Fucked-up home life, suicide attempt at 16." "When we met," "I got her started on the harder stuff." "At first, we were just messing around." "Then she ... she became everything to me." "I wanted to pull us back because we were killing each other, you know?" "But she couldn't pull back." "No matter how hard I tried I couldn't help her." "Then one day, she just left, didn't say why, didn't take my calls." "Then I went into a downward spiral." "The next time I saw her, she was dead." "We've got a signal." "Now we're just waiting on you two." "The clock's ticking." "You said something else happened that night." "Tell me everything you can remember." "Minnie, get ready to locate these." "I remember waking up in the tub after hearing a large crash." "Like glass shattering." "I had a bottle of pills by me, and Adrienne's gun." "My head's throbbing." "I don't know how long I've been out." "The place is new to me." "I remember pictures on the mantle." "In the guest bedroom, there was a couch, TV, don't remember what was on." "And on the bookshelf, an alarm clock." "I heard a noise, turned around." "Blackout." "Didn't even have enough time to pull my gun." "Minnie, bring up the attacker." "Placeholders." "Placeholders everywhere." "The memory's only 5% accurate." "It's impossible to know the context." "You don't remember who you saw, you can't even remember the area." " But the memory is real?" "Yeah, it's real." " Then you've got to keep digging." "Meet me there." "Just look again." " I looked three times." "You woke up in a generic bathroom, there were placeholders right down to the products and the magazines." "The attacker is a dead end." "There's just not enough, what do you want me to do?" "I don't remember mentioning any magazines." " It doesn't matter that you didn't mention them." "They were there." "You remember them, you just don't remember the type." "That's the thing though, now that you mention it, I do remember the type, they were skin mags." " No, I would have noticed that." "They were generic." "You're confused with another memory." " Am I?" "Minnie, how accurate is this photo?" " 100%." "Memory triggers." "Mneumonics." "They teach you these in grade school." "You have seven-course meal, you don't remember any of it, but if I tell you you had steak, that might trigger you to remember you had potatoes." "The memory unravels, doors start to open, all it takes is this tiny little trigger." "Now Anthony, it's not enough for me to decipher your thoughts from a distance, I need you to share them with me." "We have to do this together." "So you sit here and you focus." "Anthony, I'm going to tell you everything I see, and I need you to give me something back." "It's all in there, I"m just going to bring it to your attention." "The first thing is ..." "This wasn't a skin mag." "What was it, Anthony?" "It was an ink mag." "The rest of them were ink mags, too." "That's right." "Good." "Anthony, something else just opened up." "It's a ... purple bottle?" "Perfume bottle." "There were perfume bottles all over that counter." "Good." "The rug, Anthony, tell me, what color was it?" "It was red, I think, or orange." " It was red." "Red, that's right." "The towels were red, too." "Red and black." "What about the picture frame?" " A drawing... a train." "The shower curtain, that was the first thing I saw." "It was odd ..." "It had a weird pattern on it." "Spots." "The whole bathroom was pristine." "It all matched." "You're remembering." "Let's see what else you remember." "Minnie, keep me updated on percentages." " Memory 25% accurate." "Anthony, there's something else here." "The photos in the hallway, there's one, it's a drawing." "Soldiers." " 35% accurate." "Anthony, that's not all you remember." "There's a whole room in here now." " There's a pink blanket on the couch." "Pictures on the wall, there's a hat, a coffee table with a book on it, by the book there's a wall." "There's a bookshelf." "The TV's on." "A cartoon's playing." "Anthony, the clock keeps changing time." "What time is it, Anthony?" "Come on, Anthony, think." "What time is it!" "?" "1:35." "Minnie, reset this memory." "Anthony, if you can remember all these little things ..." "I know you can remember the big one." "Why was he at the house?" "I wish I knew, but the memory's authentic." "And the time, 1:35." "That's around when the cops estimate she died." "What if he did it?" "He was there." " Anthony, I saw you do it." "Maybe you're wrong!" " I'm not wrong." "I did my part, it's time to keep up your end of the bargain." "Tell Garrett that I'll be waiting for him at our meeting spot." "A deal is a deal." "I've got to take a leak." "Can I bum one of those?" "Shit." "Drop the gun." "Toss it!" "Keys!" "Give me the keys!" "Anthony, think this through." "They're going to come after you!" "If you get killed, you kill Tom!" "Come on, Anthony." "Where are you?" "I'm coming." "Holy shit!" "When did you get out?" " Not too long ago." "Come in." "Fucking forever, man." "Want a little pick-me-up?" "It's on the house." "Very funny, asshole." "You were at Adrienne's house that night." "I don't know what you're talking about." "Fuck!" "Tell me you weren't at your sister's house the night she died." "Look who's memory's coming back." " Why'd you kill her?" "You are fucking crazy!" " Don't you fucking lie to me!" "I didn't fucking kill her!" "I was there, but I didn't do anything." "I walked into the room, she was dead already." "I heard footsteps, I hid, and I saw you!" "With a gun." "I panicked, I hit you." "The cops never questioned me, you never pointed me out." "What the fuck was I supposed to do?" "Why were you at her house?" "Why do you think?" "She'd have never shacked up with you." "Oh, really?" "Why do you look so shocked?" "You got her started." "It's your fault she had to come to me." "What do you mean, she had to come to you?" "Well, we had a certain ... arrangement." "I kept her fixed and she gave me what I needed." "Guilt." "That's why she broke it off with you." "She really wanted to tell you." "But, you know what I think?" "I think you drove over to her house that night ... just a fucked-up mess." "I think she told you everything." "And you blew her away for it." "I'm sorry." "Don't move." "Give me the gun." "All this for a girl." "I thought we were friends, man." "What do you want to do now?" "Call the cops." " We can't bring the cops here, man." "Damn." "You know, he's right." "What the hell ...?" "Listen ..." "If it makes you feel any better, she really, really wanted to stop." "She did." "The problem was ..." "I got strung out on her." "I told her if she ever broke our deal ..." "I'd put a bullet in her head." "So thanks for doing the dirty work for me." "Fuck!" "Minnie, locate everything that's happening right now." "Minnie?" " My name is Minnie." "What would you like to do?" "I said, locate everything that's happening right now." " Locating." " Subject compromised." "Why did you do it?" "I was so close." "I was right there." " Sys-sys-system wipeout." "Talk to me, you coward!" "Look at me!" "You've got to get me out of here, Anthony." "Something's wrong with Minnie." "You promised me." "What are you gonna do now?" "Look at me!" "What are you gonna do now?" "I'm going to do what's in my best interest." "Your prototype still works, right?" " Yeah." "I can go back to your partner and join your wife." "She can explain it to me." "Tell me everything." "Let's get this done." "Begin Extraction..." "Okay, it's done." "Tell me what to do." " He said he'll be waiting for me." "Pull him out on my signal." "Can you see him yet?" "Shit, I lost him." " What do you mean, you've lost him?" "!" "Anthony?" "I don't see him." "Where'd you go?" "No, no, no!" "Why am I here, Minnie?" " I do not understand." "Filtering." "Don't filter, Minnie, listen to me." "I need to go to another memory." " Are you positive?" "Anthony?" "Stay with me, okay?" "Minnie, I need to go to one more memory." "Take me now!" " What would you like to do, Tom?" "This is his daughter, Donna." " I could live in that memory forever." "I know where he's going." " You've arrived." "Come on, Tom." "Anthony, come here." "Stay with me, okay?" " Welcome, Tom." "What you want to do?" "Anthony, come here!" "Look at me right now." "Tell me what you want me to do." "Come on, Tom." "Tell me what to do!" "Took you long enough." " Goodbye, Tom." "Can you take it from here?" "You got some place better to be?" "Last chance." "My name is Tom Jacobs." "Born November 12th, 1972." "My parents are Mark and Judith." "My wife's name is Abby." "I would give anything to hear her say my name again." "Tom?" "Tom?" "My father was in the war." "He didn't believe in psychology... or post-traumatic stress." "He used to say that war is like going to the beach." "You're going to come back home with some sand." "This was his 15th birthday." "Rex." "I remember this dog so well, it feels like it was mine." "It was a show dog." "Rex was a show dog?" "What are you talking about?" "You couldn't even teach the dog to sit, he'd crap all over the house, chew up the furniture." "You sound like my kid." "What are you talking about?" "I gave him away because another trainer made me a great offer." "I told Anthony it was acting up when he was in school, shitting all over the place." "You tell a kid something enough times, he'll believe you." "This dog was misbehaving." "Anthony saw it, I saw it." "Anthony didn't see shit." "Rex was a great dog." "Are you sure you remember?" "Are you?" "I'm going to get another beer." "You want one?" " No, I'm good." "Thanks." "Dad, how do I get him to sit?" " I told you, Anthony." "Repetition." "You tell a kid something enough times, he'll believe it." " Sit!" "Anthony!" "I've told you a hundred times." "That dog is dumb as shit." " Sit!" "The line gets blurry when it comes to brainwashing, but I've got a way around that." "What constitutes brainwashing?" "Hypnosis, cult programming." "Can it really be defined?" "Bad people drilling things into your head?" " Sit." "It's not that obvious." "Maybe his dog wasn't stupid." "Maybe Anthony was just conditioned to believe he was." " Sit." "Good boy." "There are thousands of ways to manipulate someone." "Some as innocent as a father talking to his son." "If Anthony could have been convinced of that, what else could he have been convinced of, from the cops mapping it out ... to his father's disappointment." " I'm giving you my word." "Doesn't that mean anything?" " Not to me." "What else could he have believed to be true?" "I'm sorry." "An anonymous tip came in." "Someone saw his pickup truck pull over by a bridge... near the murder scene around 2 a.m." "You were the anonymous tip." "It was you who wrote the letter, wasn't it?" " What the hell are you talking about?" "Don't play games with me." "You set him up, so what do you know?" "It doesn't matter now." " It matters." "It matters to me." "Anthony called you that night." "What did he tell you?" "Yeah, he called me." "Babbling incoherently." "Sounded like another lie." "These addicts, they lie." "That's what they do." "How could you?" "He was your own kid." " He was out of control." "So you were what, protecting yourself?" " I was protecting him!" "The way he was going, his addiction..." "It was only a matter of time before he was found facedown in an alley somewhere." "So when he woke up the next morning, and he told me he didn't remember anything, ... that's when I made my decision." "I set him up." "I came out of the joint clean." "Do you have a kid?" "Yeah." " What would you have done?" "Guilt is a powerful thing." "It compels, it becomes an obsession." "You have a choice: you can either wallow in it, or ... or you can change." "I think in her case, she felt like she couldn't do either." "What if he actually convinces people to pull the switch?" "I don't know why I let you look." "Old habits die hard, I guess." "I understand." "How's that work?" "Sometimes you just need to hear a familiar voice."