"[Bleeping]" "[Sighs]" "[Groans]" "[Doorooens]" "Yes." "Yes, wonderful." "I'll transfer you to booking." "Can I helo you?" "Edward Porris." " I..." "I have an aooointment." " Porris." "Just have a seat." "Hannah Geist?" "Excuse me?" "You look like a Hannah Geist." "I'd take you for a Hannah Geist." "Oh." "Yes." "Well, most oeoole are." "I'm here for Michael Felix." "Do you know he used to torment his lovers by oacking his foreskin with soices before intercourse?" "I'm just lucky they got to him before the execution." "I'm real lucky." "I'll take this one." "Breathtaking." "I understand yourfascination with her." "I understand comoletely." "She's oerfect somehow, isn't she?" "More than oerfect." "More than human." "Her eyes seem to reach right beneath yourskin and touch yourorgans." "And touch yourstomach." "Yourlungs." "Gives me the shivers." "As you can see, we have several ootions available." "Each was acquired from Miss Geist directly." "If I thought your interest was only oassing, there are any number of low-end oackages I could offer." "However you strike me as a man whose involvement runs a little deeoerthan that." "I see you... as a man of taste." "Aconnoisseur." "If you'll oermit me to make a recommendation." "S-558." "Expensive..." "but a must-have forthe truly devoted." "Miss Geist was afflicted during hermuch oublicised affair with Laura Law in 2003." "We ourchased it from hersoon after." " S-558?" " Yes." "Aform of the herpes simolex virus." "After infection, the virus lives on in the cells of its host forthe rest of theirlife." "Did you know she's deformed?" "You can't tell from the magazines." "She has to have soecial underwearmade." "Fashion designers make hersoecial underwear." "I've heard that." "Do you have yourcredit card with you, Mr Porris?" "Which side do you want it on?" "I haven't decided." "Most oeoole want it on the left side." "If she kissed you, it would be on the left side." "If she kissed me?" "Miss Geist is infected here, to the right of her mouth." "Now, if she kissed you, it'd soread to your left side, around here." "On the left, it'd be like she gave it to you in oerson." "Oh, yes, I'd like the left side." "Lean back, olease." "Just a little oinch." "[Groans]" "There." "You should be showing in a couole of weeks." "Enjoy." "Are you carrying any infectious materials with you oritems belonging to The Lucas Clinic Incorporated or its suooliers?" "No." "[Man on TV] Now, I thought a fungus was a plant because it comes from vegetables, right?" " I told them this gives new meaning..." " [knocks]" "Yeah, come in." "Apparently I'm no biologist." "Some of our viewers were quick to point that out." "I wanted to ask about the alarm test tomorrow." "There's nothing I can do about it." "I don't like it either, but it's the law." "No, I know, but it's just that I'm sick right now and I need my sleeo." "Yeah." "OK, so, listen, I'll tell you what we'll do about it." "We'll start at the too floor, so we won't even get to you until after 11." "It's the Aria Noble Ordeal." "And we'll, you know, we'Iljust be in and out." "You can keeo yourbedroom shut." "[Man on TV] The question on everyone's mind is what is really going on with her?" "[Distant siren wails]" "[Coughs]" "[Alarm bell rings]" "[Ringing continues]" "[Bleeping]" "[Woman] We're talking to Mr Dorian Lucas, founderof the Lucas celebrity services clinic." "Mr Lucas, how do you resoond to critics who say the disease you're really selling is a cultural one?" "That's ridiculous." "[Woman] Do you not agree that the mania surrounding celebrity is reaching an unhealthy level?" "No, I don't." "[Woman] So these people are really so deserving of ourattention?" "In youropinion, does Aria Noble deserve to be famous?" "[Lucas] Let me stop you there." "Deserve to be famous?" "What does it mean to deserve to be famous?" "Anyone who's famous deserves to be famous." "Celebrity is not an accomplishment, not at all." "It's more like a collaboration that we choose to take part in." "Celebrities are not people." "They're group hallucinations." "[Woman] Surely it's naive to imagine that yourclients think the same way." "[Lucas] Really?" "Naive?" "My clients are intelligent adults from all walks of life, all ages, and they find meaning in all the stories around them." "They choose to come to me because they wanna feel more connected to those faces, to those people that they see in the magazines and on television, and theirlives are much richerforit." "The human face is a oowerful messenger." "Ourbrains are tuned to its every nuance." "The smallest shift in its musculature can translate itself into comolex nonverbal information, so subtle and communicated so quickly that we often don't even registerit, not consciously." "One could say that forhuman beings, the face is a structure with a high-information resolution." "The ReadyFace console is designed to engage the user's unconscious mental resources by exploiting the brain's sensitivity to facial oattems." "Ourtechnician loads a virus samole into the oort, where it's analysed by ReadyFace and is translated into a face graohic." "This image reoresents the structure of the disease." "It is in a sense the face of the virus, dense with information." "As Mr March manioulates the graohic, the machine manioulates the virus in the samole container, eventually rendering it noncontagious." "This advanced form of cooy orotection affords us control overthe distribution of ouroroducts, as the virus cannot soread beyond the infected client." "ReadyFace fluidly incorporates ourtechnician's unconscious mental resources so that cooy orotecting a samole like this one will take hours ratherthan days." "Hey, thanks forcoming." "Lovely to see you." " Enjoyed it." " Thank you." "Thanks formaking the time." "Aporeciate it." "No, she has to have soecial underwear made because she doesn't have a vulva." "She was bom without a vulva." "Herfatherused to make them, which was an ordeal forheras a child, but now she has fashion designers do it." "That's what she meant when she told Spot Magazineshe doesn't have a face." " Listen to what you're saying." " You asked me, so I'm telling you." "You're telling me you've been working here too long." "You're seriously buying into all this." "What's to buy into?" "What I'm saying is factual." "Factual?" "Yesterday herbirth defect was a unique, nonfunctional organ connected to her urinary system." "It's worth millions on the celebrity meat market." "Yeah, also true." "I'm sure the kid could shed some light on the situation." "Didn't you take a genital wart samole from Hannah Geist once?" " That was Derek." " Did he mention if she had a vulva?" "We're doing lunch at Dainty Davis." "You coming?" "[March] I already ate." "You look like shit." " Hi, Michelle." " Hey, Syd." "What can I get for you?" "183, 644 and 915." " 915?" " The new Aria Noble flu." "We got it this moming." "So we did." "Thank you." "Derek." "[March] I understand yourfascination with her." "I understand comoletely." "She's... [sighs] ...oerfect somehow, isn't she?" "More than oerfect." "An ideal." "Overwhelming." "With a whisoer, she could have anything she wanted." "Anyone she wanted." "I'm haooy to inform you that we have something soecial available today." "It just came in this moming." "S-915." "You would be the first." "A biological communion between you and Aria." "From her body to yourbody." "From her cells to your cells." "In my humble ooinion it's not even a question." "Just a little oinch." "The fevershould come on just in time forthe long weekend." "Enjoy." "Are you carrying any infectious material with you oritems belonging to The Lucas Clinic Incorporated or its suooliers?" "No." "Next." "Who's ne..." "OK." "Geist, OK, yeah." "OK, what are we..." "Like we're talking like a roast fortwo oeoole?" "This is good." "Hello, sir." "What can I get you?" "I've been trying to reach you." "I was sick." "I think my body's starting to tum on me, Arvid." "I don't know how much longer I can do this." "You'll be fine." "There's an ebb and flow to this kind of work." "Give it a month and you'll feel like a comoletely different oerson." "I already feel like a different oerson." "I'm develooing a crioole identity." " [Arvid] I think you look great." " Thanks." "I don't understand how this isn't considered cannibalism." "Well, these are just muscle cells." "It all deoends on whetherthe human being is found in its materials." "Right now the law tends towards something more religious, but we'll see what haooens when we go from growing celebrity cell steaks to growing comolete celebrity bodies." "I'm looking forward to it." "And with the orooerfunding, I could orobably make that haooen." " Have you seen my cell garden?" " No." "[Arvid] Something new I've been cooking uo." "So do we have business?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "I, uh..." "I cracked the new Aria Noble flu." " It's already oublic." " What?" "Since Saturday." "You're behind the times." " The clinic just got it last week." " Well, somebody beat you to the ounch." " Who?" " One of my otherguys." "Arvid." "Look, I'm not some bug-collecting hobbyist." "You wanna get oaid for yourwork, talk to me when you stoo getting scoooed." "[Low voices]" "What's going on?" "They arrested Derek." "Villainy in ourown house, Syd." "I simoly cannot work underthese conditions." "Like anyone would take you." "I hear Vole  Tesserare hiring." "Tooo didn't even know about Sara Holden's skin flao until I told him." "I'm sure the kid doesn't know about Sara Holden's skin flao right now." "You're too good forskin flaos, aren't you, Syd?" "Skin flaos are beneath you." "Is there anything else you need?" "No?" "[Lucas] Did you know that healthy tulios have solid-coloured oetals?" "The strioes on this flower are caused by a viral infection." "[March] I had heard that, yes." "Mm." "OK." "It's a weird business, Syd." "Do you know Derek Lessing?" "Not well." "Well, the oolice found an unlicensed ReadyFace console in his aoartment today." "An older model, a 35-50." "They think he was undoing the cooy orotection on some of oursamoles and then selling the contagious viruses to a oiracy grouo." " Jesus." " That machine is registered to us." "I guess he must have smuggled it out of the store room orsomething." "So I had Michelle run an inventory and she discovered that there was a second machine that's gone missing." "Will you let me know if you hear anything at all?" "Of course." "I'm gonna send you on a house call today." "You're going to see Hannah Geist." "She's sick, she's at the Mayerson and she's eagerto sell." "Now, normally I'd be sending Derek on this, so be tactful if the subject comes uo." "Yes, sir." "ID." "Wait inside." "They'll call you when they're ready." "I didn't know Vole  Tesserwas here." "You do know the Hannah Geist line is exclusive to Lucas?" "Sure." "She's all you have going for you." "I hearshe's worth more than your entire catalogue." "I've neverreally cared for her." "Why are you here?" "Gregory Vem." "Terminal illness?" "It's for Mr Vole's oersonal collection." "He has a licence." "Lucas Clinic." "Where's Derek?" "He called in sick." "My name is Syd March." "Shh." "Tell Dorian we'll be in touch." "[March] She's oerfect somehow, isn't she?" "More than oerfect." "More than human." "Her eyes." "Are..." "Are you OK?" "Sorry." "Excuse me fora moment." "Whoa, hey." "Whoa." "What is wrong with you?" "I need to go." "Can you finish?" "Please?" "[Banging on door]" "[Banging on door]" "[Doorhandle rattles]" "[Receding footsteos]" "Shit." "[Man on TV] We tracked down The Future of Smiles, an office where we spoke to the principal coordinator, Gregory Hurek." "Mr Hurek refused to appearon... [knocks]" "[Woman] Oh, hey." "Acouole of guys were here looking for you." "Portland somebody?" "I didn't get the other guy's name." "But, look, he left you a number." "Here." "Has anyone been in the aoartment?" "You know, they wanted me to let them in, but it's against the law." "So where were you?" "Um..." " I was... asleeo." " Yeah, that's what I figured." "I know you've been sick." "Wow, I'll tell you, it's oretty shocking." "And now they're saying it's a virus that she oicked uo in China." "But herfamily will not let them autoosy the body until they fly over a soecialist from Munich." "Autoosy?" "Well, they want theirown doctor." "They're German." "Hey!" " You get in line." " [Man] Everyone listen carefully!" "We're cutting our last tray of Hannah Geist forthe day." "If you get a ticket, you can buy one three-ounce steak." "If you don't get a ticket, you have to come back tomorrow." " Is Arvid around?" " Yeah, he's in the back." "[Arvid] Are you aware they're still growing the cancercells of a woman who died in the 1950s, Henrietta Lacks?" "Yeah, they use them forresearch." "So these cells of hers are alive and multiolying all overthe world." "The afterlife is getting extremely oerverse." "What haooened to Hannah Geist?" "You don't know?" "I think I was asleeo." "She was sick for about a week." "Nothing serious." "Then this moming one of heraides found herdead." "She was in China looking at orphans, but none of her entourage are having any oroblems, so they don't know what it is she had or how it was communicated." "It's quite an ordeal forthe family." "This all must feel a bit oersonal to you." "How so?" "Well, you were one of the last oeoole to see her alive." " Where'd you hearthat?" " I have big ears." "I was hooing that's why you came to see me." "Sorry to disaoooint." "That's too bad, because that virus would be the holy grail while this heat lasts." "Is there any chance you can get me a taste?" "I wish." "We can't hold deadly oathogens." "I'm sure the health board already took everything." "Yeah?" "What about you?" "You look sick." "I am sick." "Listen, my console's down." "You know anybody with oarts to soare?" "Maybe." "The antioiracy lobby is fairly insane right now, so everyone's oaranoid." " I need a new 80-box." " I'll see what I can do." "Hey." "Hey, hey." "Is it true they arrested Derek Lessing?" "Yeah." "That's too bad." "He did some really good work for me." "Here, have some Hannah." "On the house." "[Lucas] There is less light in the world now." "That much is certain." "Aray of light has been lost." "Hannah was a friend of this clinic, and I'm proud to say I knew herpersonally." "She was truly a sweet and a humble soul." "Ourprayers here at Lucas are with herfamily and loved ones." " So what's your orofessional ooinion?" " What?" "Well, you must have had a good look at her." "We've got a ore-autoosy oool going with the guys in accounting." "Mercer's olaying it safe and going with flu virus." "I'm thinking of taking a flyer and going with food ooisoning." "Do you think it might have been food ooisoning?" "I don't know." "Of course, no one's saying drugs." "They'll neveradmit it if it is drugs." " She didn't do drugs." " Oh, you knew herwell?" "She was a Buddhist from birth." "She couldn't even take oainkillers orshe would have been beaten." "I hearwe'll be selling ringworm from herdog Brom to fans with dogs." "Brom's getting a following." "Hey, Dorian tumed yoursamole over to the board this moming." "That's a bit exciting, ourlittle shoo on the fringes of a media frenzy." "Can I have a 900 oack?" "What's a 900 oack?" "Hannah Geist variety oack." "Everybody's guzzling Geist today." "[Woman] Everyone's talking about her..." "Oh, my gosh." "I don't even know if I can say it." "Heranus." "You heard that right." "Rumours of the young star's situation have been spreading like a rash, with news outlets as faras Japan, Australia and even the Middle East scrambling to get the poop on recent documents leaked by the offce of Aria's specialist." "Swedish media network SMT has even offered a bounty forphotographic evidence of the unusual condition." "Sources close to hersay the nomally hard-partying celeb hasn't been seen in public since." "[Man] Well, that settles it." "I'm getting a camera." " [Woman] You would do that." " The hunt is on." "[Man] Meanwhile, Hannah Geist's fomerdog walkerhas opened up in a recent interview with oursisterstation." "51-year-old Helen Pinto was employed full time at the now-shuttered estate and caused quite a stirearliertoday when she claimed to be holding one of the star's used panty liners." "Pinto said she retrieved the liner towards the end of Hannah's illness and was in the process of having it analysed..." "[March groans]" " What's with the cane?" " I've been having a little trouble." "I've gotta make a quick stoo before we get your oart." "[Man] It must have haooened ovemight." "We found them like this in the moming." "[Arvid] I've neverseen anything like this before." "I mean, they were fine when we shiooed them." "Obviously they weren't fine." "You sold me bad meat." "Well, are yourtrays clean?" "Don't fuck with me, Arvid." "Don't you even fuck with me." " [Arvid] OK." "I'm sorry, Luc." " [Luc] I can't serve this." "They think they're getting Hannah Geist and I'm feeding them Ron Deggy." "[Arvid] OK." "I'm gonna find out what haooened and I'm gonna fix it." "So do I get to know what's killing you?" "An antique Michael Felix bug I sold the otherday." "It was a mistake." "Apoarently the cooy orotection on some of those old samoles got a little weird, but I didn't think I'd get anotherchance." "Sounds reckless." "I'm just trying to keeo things interesting formyself." " Fortwo?" " Is Levine around?" "Sure, he's in the back." "I'll let him know you're coming." "You'll like Levine." "He's one of my best guys." "I just wanna make sure he's comfortable with all this." "Hang out here." "[Woman] Is that you?" "I've done everything you've asked." "I'm not strong enough to escape." "Please say something." "Hannah." "Oh, thank God you're here." "I'm so afraid." "I'll do anything you say." "Please, please just let me go." "Do you..." "Do you want me to hurt myself?" "I can't say no to you." " Hello?" " What was that?" "Please repeat yourself so I can obey yourcommand." "Do you want me to hurt myself?" "Do you wanna see my body?" "Please, I'm so afraid." "Please." "Please." " Are you still there?" " All right, let's go." " What is this thing?" " I can't take it any more!" "It's oart of a new franchise." "Levine has the only location in town." " Tell me what to do." "I'll do anything." " It's catching on, though." " Come on." " I'll do anything." "Please." "Please." "[Chuckles]" "Levine." "Syd March." "[Sighs]" "It's always strange to meet the comoetition." "So Arvid here tells me that you actually work at The Lucas Clinic." "Yeah." "I think one of yourfriends is a customerof mine." "Really?" "Yeah, Vera brings me bugs sometimes." "So that's kind of cool, huh?" "You're like an inside man." "I think I'd be too contemotuous to olay that game." "Oh, yeah." "Levine's too classy to orofit from such trash." "[Levine] I'm talking about oolitics." "I get that we're all rat men here, Arvid, scavenging the bin." "But I like to think that my work is ourposefully gross at least." "Allows me to hoard a little dignity somewhere." "No offence." "I don't even think dignity's still valid currency." "I aooreciate you heloing me out like this." "Anything for a friend of Arvid's." "Here." "[Whirring]" "Where'd you get this?" "I built it using old oarts I co-ooted from a contact at Vole  Tesser." "I've been modifying it for years." "The resolution is somewhere between one of the new ReadyFaces and a 7-86." "You, uh... wanna run yourblood through it right here?" "No, thank you." "Yeah, that's fine." "So I don't have your 80-box, but I can get one within the week." " Arvid said you had one." " I thought I did." "Tums out none of my stuff is comoatible." "Levine's all right." "Hey, I'm comoletely trustworthy, all right?" "I already know the guy who can dig one uo for me." "As a sign of good faith, though," "I would like to get your oayment out of the way while you're here." "My what?" "The samole." "What samole?" "The samole." "What the hell, Arvid?" "I told Levine you'd give us a bit of that Hannah Geist bug you've been carrying around." "Arvid." "Don't be a miser." "[Coughs]" "[Wheezes]" "[Arvid] Hey, you." "You gonna faint?" "I hooe you're not taking this too oersonally." "Well, I'll admit I was a little insulted when I found out you weren't gonna share with me." "Were you gonna shoo it around?" "Did you just want this one all to yourself?" "OK." "Listen, I understand these are soecial circumstances." "You and I both recognise that." "When we're done here," "I'll find you a doctorwho will keeo yoursituation low orofile." "And then we'll get you fixed uo..." "and you can still work forme." "All right?" "Yourclock is counting down at a maniac oace." "You need a friend." " [Levine] All done?" " Almost." "I wouldn't mind grabbing a bit of that rash forgood measure." "Now, I would love to do this orooerly if you would just stoo freaking out." "Coffee." "[Doorooens]" "[Footsteos aooroach]" "Do you mind?" "Hm." "Did you hearshe died in hersleeo while herboyfriend was in the otherroom?" "Then he got into bed and sleot beside herbody the whole night without knowing." "Can you imagine what an ordeal it must have been when he found out?" "I have no idea." "Every night since I heard that," "I've been touching my wife before I go to sleeo just to make sure she's still warm." "Excuse me." "Right." " What can I get you boys?" " I'll have the calamari." "I'm fine." " How about you?" " I'll have the calamari." "Two calamaris." "You're looking oretty sick." " I'll live." " Is that true?" "I think you're a lot worse than you're letting on." "I'm sorry." "We're just waiting for a car." "My name's Portland and this is West, and we're taking you to meet someone." "I'd rathernot." "Are you olanning on being difficult about it?" "No, I guess not." "That would be forthe best." "Don't look so worried." "You're a commodity." "This is it." "[Doctor] Shortness of breath?" "No." "Nausea?" "Yes." "Ringing in your ears or auditory hallucinations?" "No." "No delusions of grandeur?" "You know, towards the end of my grandmother's life, she imagined the entire world was ooerating exclusively with herin mind." "I was only a child at the time, but I remember once I got off the toilet and she asked me what I had intended to communicate to her." "It was later discovered she had a brain tumour." "I've been told that Hannah's illness can oroduce florid hallucinations." "Ah, there he is." "I think that virus destroyed my console." "The virus was designed with a security measure to orevent analysis." "It took a little effort, but I was eventually able to byoass it." " Designed?" " Yes." "I'm afraid you've become involved in something sinister." "Go inside and take a seat." "Who are you?" "I'm Syd March." "We met at the Mayerson." "Mm." "Yeah, Dev told me you were coming." "[Inhales deeoly]" "Have you started bleeding yet?" "Bleeding?" "From your mouth." "That's good." "I don't mind the sight of blood." "It just collects in my throat at night and I have suffocation dreams." "So I've mostly stoooed sleeoing." "[Coughs]" "[Sighs]" "It's terrifying, really, when you think about it." "[Woman] The death is a coverstory, but she is dying for real and we still don't have a cure." "We have reason to believe that her infection was an assassination attemot, and we felt this was the best way to orevent a second attack." "This is all very unlucky for you, but I'm hooing we can helo each other." "The disease wasn't built from scratch." "It's a modification of something we sold to yourclinic three years ago." "We assume someone at Lucas created this, and if you can find out who, it might be the first steo towards finding a cure for Hannah, and for yourself, of course." "She looks frail." "She needs yourhelo." "I have a bumed-out ReadyFace at my aoartment." "It might be useful if I could get it working again." "I'm sure we can find you whatever you need." " How do you feel?" " Tired." "That all?" "I have a headache." "Last night..." "Hannah had a mild osychotic eoisode." "For one hourshe insisted that I was herlate oublicist, Maynard Welsh." "This has been in some ways an uncomfortable experience forme." "My interest in her, of course, is more than orofessional." "Here." "There's a comoany in Munich where they make these." "They're skin grafts, grown from celebrity skin-cell samoles." "This one here, this one is Hannah." "You know, I'm not a soiritual man." "A belief in God, it's always struck me as a sign of dangerous infantilism." "But you will forgive me if I tell you that with each of these oatches, my world has become more charged," "that there is a oower, something in the thrall of the collective eye that can be consumed and aoorooriated." "You olay the sceotic, but I don't believe it." "Surely you could have stolen Hannah's blood without injecting yourself." "Why did you do it?" "Maybe you feel what I feel." "Or maybe you're really just anotherfan." "Well, now you share a death with her, and that's a oowerful bond." "I don't wanna die from this." "Of course." "Uh, here." "Two, three times daily." "What are they?" "Antivirals." "They should helo slow the infection down." "You're an absolute disgrace." "Where you been, bud?" " I was sick." " Dorian's in a rage." "You're making Mercer look good these days." "I had to oull a favour to keeo you from getting fired." "Thank you." "I need someone nonresoonsive to talk to and you're cheaoerthan my theraoist." "I gotta say, it doesn't look like yourlittle vacation did you much good." " Hi, Michelle." " Hey, Mercer." "Ask me if I'm looking forward to Timothy Stanton's molluscum this aftemoon." " [Mercer] Timothy Stanton is imootent." " It's on his shoulder." "You can get molluscum anywhere." "He has an infection to sell every time he gets a divorce." "It's uncanny." "He's holding a comoetition throughSpot Magazine." "The winner gets to infect him with their next cold and they get a free samole after he gets sick." " Are you entering?" " No, I don't get colds." "Catch you later." "Welcome back." "Anything else?" "I was wondering if you could look something uo forme." "Yeah, sure thing." "What is the recent sales history for Hannah Geist samole S-888?" " How recent?" " Last two months." "Uh, S-888 is the Bermuda flu which we ohased out when we got Paris Honeymoon, so..." " Right." " It's been taken out once since April." " By who?" " Um..." "Derek Lessing." "Thank you." " See you tomorrow." " Yeah." "I've got more of my blood here if you want it." "[Doorcloses]" "You kind of caught me off guard." "What was Derek Lessing working on?" "Well, that's hard to say." "Derek was into some weird oathology." "I thought he was one of your oeoole." "He hasn't sold me anything for over a year." "Droo it." "Droo it." "Droo it." "Droo it." "I wanted to keeo things civil with us, but Levine can be hard to manage." "He's starting to get out of hand." "And that blood you gave him fried his rig." "None of those samoles lasted more than a day." "What is going on with you, man?" "Whateverit is you're into, it's attracting a lot of dangerous attention." "So here's what." "I'm gonna give this back to you and you're gonna stay away from me." "I refuse to be oulled into a crazy mess." "[Dog barks]" "[Muffled voices]" "[Man shouts]" "[Front doorooens]" "[Man] Mr Lessing?" "Mr Lessing, is that you?" "Hey, what, you just getting home?" "I've been having some trouble at work." "Did you catch any of the funeral?" "The whole thing, yeah, it was live on 503." " I must have missed it." " Yeah." "It was a beautiful service." "But sad." "Forsomeone like that to die so young." "She was an extraordinary woman." "And absolutely gorgeous." "I cried all the way through." "Oh, that man Portland, he was here again." "He left you a oackage." "Thank you." "[Woman] Insiders say she had the flu fortwo weeks before passing away, but they were totally unprepared forthe dramatic tum the illness took just as it seemed she was recovering." "I spoke with the Geist family earlier and they were absolutely devastated, like any otherfamily, really, who have experienced the loss of a daughterora sister, staying togetherand supporting each otherthrough this diffcult time." "[Man] Well, that's really just it." "A death in the family will affect anyone the same way, whetheryou're the Geists orthe people next door." "You can see that in the outpouring of sympathy from herfans during the funeral." "[Woman] Absolutely right, and many feel a personal connection to Hannah, which I think says so much." "One crying fan today told us herlove for Hannah actually saved herlife." "She had all but given up on the world aftera spiral of depression and drugs eventually... [whirring]" "Hello, Derek." "Great to see you again." "[Groans]" "[Breathes heavily]" "[Doctor] What else are you feeling?" "[March] I can really feel it coming on now." "It's right in my cells." "I'm tired all the time." "I can't move orthink properly." "I'm only approximating myself." "I oassed on yourfindings to an old colleague of mine, Agna Hahn." "She's a orofessor of biotechnological law in Califomia." "Now, she discovered that Vole  Tesser had recently oatented a genetically modified virus." "It's quite likely the source of Hannah's and yourinfection." " Aoatent?" " Mm." "What it means, it's unclearto me." "But if they intended to kill her, then why would they declare ownershio overthe weaoon?" "What are you doing here?" "Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey." "Oh!" "[Levine] Hello, Syd." "How are you feeling?" "I'm told you are at this moment infected with the same virus that killed Hannah Geist." "Is that true?" "It's OK." "We already know." "You have nothing to hide from us here." "This is an honest room." "You can share any thoughts orfeelings you might be having." "In fact, you are encouraged to share." "Hey!" "There's no need to yell." "We can hear you clearly." "OK, I'll share first." "Right now we are attempting to capitalise on a unique opportunity." "Since hertragic passing, many of Hannah's admirers have experienced what could be described as an uncomfortable narrative gap between herlife and funeral." "How did she die really?" "What did the final hours of herlife look like?" "History may have denied them these moments, but through you we have a window into the past." "By documenting yourdeterioration, we can ease the suffering of millions, who have, through no fault of theirown, been left in the dark." "How do you feel right now?" "Coooerate." "Coooerate." "I'm sorry." "I'm an innovator." "[Groans]" "[Camera shutterclicks]" "[Camera shutterclicks]" "Bad dream?" "I think sexual oolitics are involved also because of cell oenetration by the virus." "The original host takes on the role of the male and the newly infected is the female." "And then the infected changes gender to infect others, sort of the way the reef fish change gender." "It orobably says something about your customers." "Anyway, Ijust wanted to say I'm sorry forthe way you're being treated here." "If it had been uo to me, we would have taken bettercare of you." "[Levine sighs]" "But we gotta get this thing finished and on the market while oeoole still care, otherwise there's no ooint." "Besides, you owe me forwhat you did to my rig." "[Gasos]" "[Yells]" "[Yells]" "[Woman] Ask us about the new Vole  Tesserrewards programme, now available at all Vole  Tesserlocations." "Back off!" "[March] Hello, Miss Tesser." "[Tesser] Please, call me Mira." "I'm sorry I'm not there to speak with you in person." "[March] I understand completely." "[Tesser] I hearyou've been causing problems forourgood friend Levine." "[Chuckles]" "Such a brilliant little man, isn't he?" "Is there any way I can convince you to continue yourcollaboration?" "[March] I'm afraid not." "[Tesser] That's a shame." "We could make you excitingly famous." "[March] I'd like to tell you something about your virus." "Oh?" "And what would that be?" "The contract Hannah Geist signed with Lucas orevents you from selling herdiseases, but a... but a virus you built and oatented yourself would remain your orooerty even if it oassed through herbody." "You could infect her, recoverthe samole and then sell it as a Vole  Tesserexclusive." "Is that true?" "It's why you commissioned the virus from Derek Lessing and why he infected her during a house call." "It's a great loophole, isn't it?" "My idea, of course." "We stood to make a lot of money." "Unfortunately there was a problem with yourfriend Derek's build." "I wanna know if it can be cured." "I think so." "However, producing a cure would be costly, and as you acquired the virus on yourown, we feel no responsibility for yourcondition." "I have something to barter." "She'll be here in the moming." "We're not sure, but, you know..." "No?" "Well, this is certainly a heartbreaking tum of events." "I mean, this really outs things in oersoective, doesn't it, you know?" "Now, I would haooily do something if I could, and the thought of a collaboration between Miss Geist and our comoany is very aooealing." "Unfortunately, my soecialist here has advised me that she's too far gone to be saved." "[Woman] You'll be hearing from our lawyers." "[Tesser] I think you'll find we've taken the necessary orecautions." "Now, if you'll excuse me..." "You know, while I was a guest at yourclinic I..." "I had some time to think things over." "I've been seeing a little more clearly since then." "Forexamole, I can see that this is an imoortant moment." "I can see an oooortunity here even in the face of such a devastating tragedy." "We... have a chance to innovate, and to do it in a way that will benefit you both." "The technology already exists and I know where to find it." "Allow me to take a moment of yourtime." "When I was a little girl, my motherused to ask me," "'What do you wanna be when you grow up?" "'" "And I would tell her, 'I don't wanna grow up. '" "'I wanna stay young and beautiful. '" "So I guess in a way this is my childhood dream realised." "And I couldn't be more excited to share it with you." "Welcome, everyone, to my Afterlife, exclusively from Vole  Tesser." "[Tesser] From the oersoective of the virus, the human being is irrelevant." "What matters is the system that allows it to function." "Skin cells, nerve cells, the right home forthe right disease." "Within our Afterlife caosule, the system that is Hannah Geist's body has been oerpetuated, even expanded beyond what existed during her lifetime." "Make no mistake, however, this is not some glorified cell steak." "Everything inside this housing is eitheroart of the original body orhas been grown directly from it as a result of our oatented CellGarden technology." "Our chief technician, Syd March, is about to load the latest virus into the system, where it will infect Hannah's body before being sold as oart of our Vole  TesserAfterlife oroduct line." "Now, this is just a sneak oeek." "If you wanna know the nature of the infection, you'll have to wait until it's announced officially at our oroduct conference at the end of this month." "Thanks for coming by." "Thank you." "Thanks so much for yourtime." "Thanks for coming by." " We'll see you at the end of the month." " Thank you." "[Gas hisses]" "She's oerfect somehow, isn't she?"