"wake up." "wake up, dad." "kevin, come in here and eat breakfast for me, all right, buddy?" "what time is it?" "you're late." "guess i fell asleep." "dad, can i ride my bike?" "go get some breakfast with your mom and then we'll figure it out." "okay." "dad said i can ride my bike." "no, you cannot." "get back in here where you're eating breakfast right now." "he did not say you could ride your bike." " so, what's burnt?" "what's what?" "burnt." "it's not burnt." "it's well-done." "bye, mom." "mnh-mnh." "kevin get back in ... oh." "hey, archer." "yeah, listen." "so, specimen 22 and 23, what happened?" "right." "no, but what i'm saying is..." "no, i understand." "the whole sequence is messed up." "we're gonna have to go back in." "i-it ... it's just not working right now." "oh, y... w... are you gonna eat?" "here, take this in the car with you." "exactly right, all right." "you forgot your coffee." "kevin, get in here." "but i'm looking at the same things you are." "yes, all right." "exactly." "so if you look at 48-c, i really believe it's a whole new way..." "all right, what do ... what do you mean?" " listen, work back, right?" "all right, which sequence?" "work backwards from the goal." "so if we're trying to achieve a ..." "yeah, no, we need to have you come in." "10:00 a.m. now?" "no, i'll be there." "i'll be there." "that's good. that's good." "all right. okay." "i'm gonna let you go now, okay?" "all right, here we are." "okay." "all right, good." "you remember any of this?" "hmm?" "that's okay." "you hit the windshield at 36 miles per hour, and you've been in a coma for two weeks." "so, truth be told, we're very lucky to have you here, alive ..." "breathing, at all." "a car crash?" "yeah, you hit a tree." "you swerved into a tree." "where's the doctor?" "they said it would take a few weeks to get your full memory back." "they said the best thing to do would be just to walk you through it." "so i figured we'd start at the beginning, okay?" "where are we in that?" "nags head, early '70s." "we used to go there two months out of every year... before our father passed away." "that happened when we were 12." "heart attack." "he was the picture of health, and he just dropped dead running one morning." "i'm sorry." "it's ... i'm sorry." "it's like my life never happened." "i just don't understand." "my head, it ... it just feels empty." "i'm sorry." "it's okay." "here." "uh, we used to eat these when we were children." "our mother fed them to us after we had our wisdom teeth pulled." "is our mother alive?" "no." "that ice-cream sandwich is not gonna eat itself." "you should take a bite out of it." "it's very good." "you want to hear a joke?" "knock, knock." "knock, knock." "when i say, "knock, knock," you reply to me, "who's there?"" "who's there?" "that's good." "boo." "boo?" "you say, "boo who?"" "boo who?" "don't cry." "it's just a joke." "i understand." "i got it." "it's just a joke." "i got it." "you've been married nine years, separated for four." "does she know i'm okay?" "i don't know." "where is she?" "where is she?" "i honestly don't know." "you've been separated since kevin died." "kevin." "you remember kevin." "he was 6 years old, and he died 4 years ago." "i remember him." "is there anyone left?" "me." "i'm here." "you were lucky." "lucky?" "to get pregnant." "jules can't have children, and kevin was a fluke." "don't worry about me." "don't film me." "film the lighthouse and the ocean." "ah, that's nice." "yeah." "what?" "stop." "take off your clothes." "take off my clothes?" "yeah." "it's a public beach." "let's go swimming." "i'm not gonna go ..." "it's 40 degrees in the water." "yeah, it's perfect." "it's not ... jules, come on." "you can't be serious." "i'm going." "come on. stop." "come on. you stop." "it's 20 degrees out there, jules." "it's perfect." "you will freeze." " it's so cold." "stop taking your clothes off." "you're not going in the water." "come on!" "but i'm really good at swimming." "once you hit the waves, you'll ..." " okay." "oh, my god, it's cold!" "i'm not coming in." "i'm not coming in." "i'm not coming in!" "will you marry me?" "!" "you work in a lab at next corporation." "what is that?" "it's a government-contracted lab focused on the study of chromosomes, okay?" "what did i do there exactly?" "you were one of their leading geneticists." "before kevin died, you'd been working 100-hour weeks." "it had been a while since you'd seen your family." "are you all right?" "why didn't she want to see me?" "because you were driving." "kevin was riding his bike and you were driving and you hit him." "and that's how it happened." "yeah." "is it okay if i lie down?" "and when do results come in?" "mm." "i said thursday." "not thursday." "we have some real problems here." "tomorrow?" "it just doesn't seem reasonable." "i didn't say it was unreasonable." "i said it didn't seem reasonable." "we agreed on thursday, and i'd like to stick to that if we can, okay?" "i don't care what we agreed to." "okay." "okay. tomorrow." "make it out to archer." "thank you." "okay." "bye." "i'll have to step out for a while, william." "stay here." "don't go outside." "i just don't think you're ready is all." "if you need anything or if anything happens, just pick up the telephone and dial these numbers and call me." "william, you put this cereal in a bowl with milk, and that's how you eat cereal." "okay." "cellular degeneration dates this proxy at exactly the same age as the prototype." "we grafted the telomerase protein and used it as an rna template like you said." "same results every time. look." "cell division rate is perfect." "they're pretty much exact clones in every physical way." "they've got the same blood pressure, same brain function, same response time, but...we've run into some other issues." "massive brain tumors have developed in 7/10 of them." "70% have brain tumors?" "and how long do they live?" "they're not gonna make it a month." "i hate to do this to you on your first day back, but we have some visitors from upstairs." " what do you mean "upstairs"?" "they're down here to talk about what has become a very sensitive issue." "what do you mean?" "and i need you to cooperate with them." "a set of samples from the second round of splicing along with some corelle solution has gone missing ..." "that and some human eggs." "missing?" "how?" "uh..." "hello?" "i'm coming home." "i'm gonna make it right." "i don't understand." "i'm sorry." "i never should've left you." "you sound different." "are you okay?" "i'm done running away." " hello?" "they're just making sure that it was no one from the staff." "answer their questions." "but why would they think it's ... it doesn't make sense." "wait. stop." "gentlemen." "william, it's good to have you back." "morning." "this is tom." "tom. tom langley ..." "spenning, brag, and penn." "i'm william blakely." "we just need a few answers on this." "on what?" "sorry, what's the question?" "you said you needed a few answers on this." "they're talking to everyone, william." "they're just taking through the staff, trying to make sure that no one ... but dr. blakely runs our research lab." "you're a company man, right, william?" "he's one of our ..." "excuse me?" "corelle ..." "it's a cloning agent, right?" "that's correct." "you took last week off." "is that right?" "dr. archer, i don't understand what ..." "four samples of corelle are missing from specimen 29." "that surprise you, william?" "does that surprise me?" "hey, how's that stuff work, anyway?" "it, uh, stabilizes an amino acid sequence in the q-45 ..." "that must be worth millions on the open market if someone were selling." "what are you saying?" "what are you trying to say?" "what am i trying to say?" "if you're saying what i think you're trying to say, there's a very serious insinu..." "it's a very serious accusation." "william, wait. william, no." "dr. archer, it's an accusation." "it's an accusation." "william, no, how long have we known each other?" "it's an accusation." "he's accusing me." "please, seven years." "william is one of our most trusted ..." "i signed a 206-c." "you under... you know that next corporation's secrets are safe with me." "william, no." "i'm sure that they are." "what about the other people that you work with?" "i've spent the last seven years of my life working around the clock, and you're telling me that because of a lapse in a multimillion-dollar security system, that somebody has walked out the front door with proprietary information regarding the first round of telomerase slicing." "do you have any idea the months of work it takes to create 12 ounces of corelle?" "do you even know what it's capable of?" "i don't know. i don't care." "dr. archer, i don't understand." "william, william." "all right, william, thank you." "dr. archer." "thank you for coming in." "we're going to go ahead and ..." "we'll see you soon." "i'll ... i'll be in touch." "who is that man?" "who is that man?" "what is his name?" "he, uh ... he is just from ..." "what is his name?" "okay." "william, what are you doing?" "who are you?" "where's my family?" "where is my family?" "calm down." "sit down." "sit in the chair." "o-okay." "sit down!" "okay." "hands out in front." "william, calm down." "watch the g... watch the gun." "be careful, william." "be careful." "be careful." "quiet. quiet. quiet. quiet." "just tell me the truth." "just tell me the truth." "that's all." "i work in a genetics lab." "a research project focused on the..." "what does this have to do with me?" "...a controlling agent." "where is my family?" "!" "where is my family?" "!" "you don't have a family." "you don't have a family." "my lab, the lab where i work not extending people's lives, but making them older, faster, then recording and implanting learned behavior ... facial recognition, image memory, language, like loading up a computer with data." "why?" "because we want to make clones ... replacements." "proxies." "you are a proxy, william." "you are my proxy." "get up." "get up." "go. go. go. go. go." "go up the stairs." "go up the stairs." "go up the stairs!" "don't sit down!" "go up the stairs!" "no, this is ridiculous, william." "go up the stairs!" "get up and go up the stairs!" "no." "get up." "stop, stop, stop!" "stop!" "william, think through this." "what do you think has happened?" "don't you realize that if they find out what we've done, it's over?" "william, no." "what are you doing?" "what are you doing?" "stop." "lie back. lie back. quiet." "lie back." "okay, okay, okay." "put your feet under the straps." "under the straps." "let's go. under. under. under." "what are you doing?" "what are you doing?" "where are you going?" "i am going to find her." "to find her." "and to find out who i am." "no. no!" "william?" "i saw you from the bus." "are you following me?" "yes. no." "i wanted to see you." "well, you see me." "you ... you want to ask me to get coffee or something?" "yes." "yes, i do." "or we could get ice-cream sandwiches." "okay." "you're beautiful." "i didn't know." "i saw the photos, but... you really are." "you okay?" "yeah." "i have to go, okay?" "okay." "hello?" "no, i'll be there." "i'm fine, yeah." "i understand." "no, i said ... what i said was it would take a few days." "that's the nature of time off, isn't it?" "suspicious?" "suspicious?" "no, i'm here, yeah." "mm-hmm." "all right." "well, there's actually something i wanted to talk to you about, too." "no, i think we should meet in person." "thank you, dr. archer." "take care of yourself." "okay." "ah, baxter, can you lock up tonight?" "sure." "the men from upstairs are gonna be here pretty early." "okay." "did you notice anything odd about william tonight?" "why?" "uh, oh, he just, um... um, i'm going to meet with him." "this late?" "yeah, it sounded urgent." "is this one from specimen 29?" "yeah, he's the last one." "dr. archer, can i ask you something?" "why is it you still work here at next corp?" "you know, i look at this dog, and i think," ""life is the whim of several billion cells to be you for a while."" "what's that from?" "cant' remember." "baxter, you don't just quit a job like this." "why?" "you just don't." "okay." "don't start the car." "i just want to take a minute to explain what's been going on." "you mean ... you mean with you?" "no, with the samples." "all right." "william, what's been going on with the samples?" "i know you've been concerned with the men from upstairs." "william." "these guys are not joking around, all right?" "internal special security." "the entire department ... they can shut it down just like that if they want to." "they will not hesitate to put us down." "and i've given you every opportunity." "i have defended you." "i've given people my word." "i've backed you at every turn, william, but your behavior is increasingly suspicious." "william... the best move is for you to come clean." "you were the only one who was kind to me." "all right." "i thought to myself, "what a kind man."" "right, william ..." "stop interrupting me." "i talk now." "and i didn't understand why you were being so nice to me." "and then i realized that it was because next corporation needed william blakely." "they were afraid of william blakely." " good." "good job." "good, william." "we are gonna deal with this." "i am your friend." "i will help you out." "don't touch it. sit back." "what do you think you're gonna do?" "what do you think you're gonna do?" "i'm going to leave." "what are ... no one leaves next corporation." "i do." "william?" "william?" "i told you everything you needed to know." "except it's not your life, it's my life." "you have to understand." "i...i lost a child." "i was responsible." "my life ended that day, so..." "how old am i?" "15 months since inception." "you've been alive for 6." "i didn't mean to hurt you." "i just wanted to fix something." "but what if i don't want to be william blakely?" "you have to." "you have to do this." "i need you to do this." "jules needs you to do this." "okay." "okay." "but you have to go." "you have to leave." "you can't stay here." "you have to go." "i'll leave tomorrow." "okay." "jules." "jules." "jules, i'm sorry." "i didn't know h..." "william, not right now, okay?" "i mean, what is this?" "what do you want?" "i just didn't have any ..." "i'd have no one else." "you can't just show up to my bus stop and just expect me to, like, relate to you, right?" "the world doesn't stop just because decide that you don't want to be a part of it." "it's just not fair." "jules, i'm not trying to upset you." "i just don't have anyone else to reach out to right now." "well, you are upsetting me, william." "please, all i'm asking is a minute of your time." "what did you just say to me?" "l-l-listen, jules." "please, wait." "no. no, no, no, no." "you don't get to say that to me." "all i had was time." "you weren't there." "i'm so..." "no, okay, i get it. i get it." "is this about kevin?" "i don't know. i'm sorry." "what?" "you ... you want to talk about kevin?" "is this what it's about?" "do you know what i do?" "do you know what this is?" "i carry this around." "this is his hair from his first haircut." "i think that i deserve him back in some ways." "you do deserve that." "i believe you do deserve that." "no. there is no deserve." "there are no moral order to any of this." "we don't get paid back for the pain that we felt." "there's none of that shit." "i was willing to go on with you." "you caved. you ran away." "but i'm here now." "i can't answer for that, but i am here now." "mm." "i promise you. i am here." "i just see him when i look at you." "but why not make that a good thing?" "i can't." "hello?" "hello, william. william?" "yeah, i'm here." "next corporation has called three times this morning looking for you." "if you're going to be william blakely, you need to go to the lab." "you need to go to work, william." " hey, william." "william, take a walk with me?" "have you seen archer this morning?" "he was a no-show for the q1 budget report." "no, i didn't see him." "well, when you see him, could you tell him to stop by, please?" "yeah, i'll tell him." "have you circled up with baxter yet?" "no, i have not seen baxter." "some interesting news with specimen 29." "okay." "i'll talk to baxter about specimen 29." "you okay?" "yeah. are you?" "yeah, i'm good." "i'm gonna go." "baxter?" "hey, dr. blakely." "how are the... the dogs?" "this is the last one from specimen 29." "the tumor spread faster than we anticipated." "the tumors?" "the brain tumors." "i don't know what it is that you do, what you've got going on in here, but, um, i'm done playing games." "i-i'm sorry." "i don't ... i don't know what you're talking about." "a man has a right to his privacy." "i get it. i respect it." "but as your neighbor, i have a duty to report any suspicious activity, okay?" "look, i think we got off on the wrong foot." "i'm william." "i know. we've met. lester." "i know that what i do here might seem strange, but i think we're just going a little burb crazy out here." "i'm a geneticist." "i work for next corporation." "you know, the big building downtown and the slogan," ""building a better tomorrow one cell at a time."" "i could... i could show you what we do." "it's very interesting." "i'll make some coffee." "get out of the cold." "come on." "so, you do science and stuff?" "yeah, i do science." "come on in." "two others died last night and one yesterday." "they're dying?" "that has a tendency to happen when you have a brain tumor, doctor." "apparently, when you clone a clone, you get all these weird anomalies like brain tumors, blindness." "blindness?" "yeah, they've all gone blind in the late stages." "did you say "clone a clone"?" "what do you mean?" "i should go." "are you doing all right, dr. blakely?" "whoa." "yeah, there we are." "that's pretty well-hidden." "well, listen, would you like to see?" "head on down, and i'll get a piece of gear that makes it work." "there's a light switch right down there at the bottom of the landing." "i'll be right back. go ahead." "you got to see. it's great." "sure." "hey, william?" "p-please, william." "i ... i think i broke my neck." "you're a curious man, lester." "i had a breakthrough yesterday." "i... i used to be afraid of people." "i used to run from them." "but i realized that might not be the right approach." "i was born on the other side of that door in a bathtub." "it took him months of trial and error and he killed the defects and buried them in the backyard under the snow." "and then he made me." "i was designed to learn fast." "exponential brain growth." "i learned things in leaps and bounds." "tried to make a better version of himself..." "let me tell you a joke." "...without the guilt..." "knock, knock." "...but it backfired..." "knock, knock?" "...because he had made a mirror, and it became a constant reminder of who he was and what he had done." "don't cry. it's just a joke." "i don't understand." "never mind. it's just a joke." "use this spoon to eat your cereal." "he had convinced himself that i was ready ... that i was ready to go it alone, to do it myself." "but i knew the real reason was that he was sick of me." "he was sick of the sight of me, the sight of himself, every day, everywhere he looked." "...and so, he left me." "he abandoned me." "he left me with a black book, a survivor's guide ... maps and credit cards and histories, information about his wife, his wife ... how to find her and help her." "it took me two weeks to run out of food... and then i went out into the world." "i was starving." "and i was arrested 24 hours later in a grocery store." "i was terrified." "he'd told me the world was a good place, but that was a lie." "the world is a cruel place, and i didn't belong." "they processed me." "they categorized me." "they classified me." "they told me i was delusional, schizophrenic, a danger to myself and others." "when they did this, i would go to a place far away, like a recurring dream that i would escape to." "and i've been trying to find that place, to go back there, ever since." "and i'm closer now than before." "i'm as close as i've ever been, okay?" "next corporation found me in three months." "they had searched everywhere." "they needed me back to continue the work, and i came back here." "and i was alone, totally alone." "i had nothing, no one." "and i decided to follow his lead." "and i made a proxy." "and that makes me invisible, unaccountable." "i'm going to disappear like he disappeared, and no one will come after me." "before i leave, i'm going to make sure that he will never forget me again." "he's going to understand what it feels like to hurt the way i hurt." "so this is my breakthrough." "taking a human life is easy for me because i'm different." "i'm not even human." "i'm better than that." "william, i didn't do anything to you!" "please, no!" "you're baxter, right?" "i'm sorry, what?" "you're a company man, right, baxter?" "what ... what ..." "what do you guys want?" "i can count on you to help me out, right?" "you talked to archer last night before he left." "what did he tell you?" "hi, jules. hi." "hi, jules, would you like ... do you have time this afternoon to come here?" "it's amazing to see you." "you look amazing." "hi, jules." "do you have time to come over here and talk about... come on in." "coffee?" "water?" "you want to see some footage?" "we owe that to each other." "we owe that to kevin, jules." "i have shots of every ... and kevin, i have stuff of kevin." "no, i know. i know." "don't cry." "i don't like it, either." "don't cry." "you remember that one time we were on the beach together?" "if you could just give me a chance." "it's true. it's true." "i agree with you." "no, i'm not laughing at you, and i'd like to talk to you." "i don't like it, either." "i feel ... i feel like we owe it to each other to be better." "pick up. pick up. pick up." "pick up. pick up." " hello?" "william?" "hi." "hi." "listen, uh, we can't do this anymore." "we need to finish it." "i want a divorce." "hello?" "no, i ... i agree." "i'm glad you called." "do you have time today to come over here and talk to me?" "and we can just sort of sit and talk about the next steps?" "okay, what's your address?" ""to whom it may concern, jules braxton-blakely" ""will be my wife forever and always to eternity." ""but since the loss of our only son, kevin," ""our lives have been utterly empty." ""but our love will not end with her death." ""love is stronger than that." ""may god have mercy on our souls." "william blakely."" "hello." "i just found out what's going on." "i can't understand why you would do this." "yeah." "tough break." "listen to me." "it's funny how sometimes things just work out like they're supposed to." "your friend is on her way over here now, and we're going to have a nice chat." "goodbye." "come on in." "thank you." "step in here." "reminds me of your old grad-school place." "yeah." "the one on braeburn?" "mm." "how long have you been here?" "i moved here a while ago." "it feels like forever ago." "in the middle of nowhere." "yeah, it's the middle of nowhere." "what year was your father born?" "my father?" "answer the question." "1942." "what's your wife's maiden name?" "braxton." "you had a brother, an identical twin." "he died when you were 4-years-old." "what was his name?" "dr. archer was found dead in his car last night with the corelle solution." "dr. archer?" "i have to go now." "i know what you are." "what the hell is wrong with you?" "you, don't move." "i need to see the two of you outside right now." " baxter!" "so, then what do you want?" "just tell me." "i'm your friend." "you can talk to me." "none of this is your fault." "how would any of this be my fault?" "i shouldn't have come here." "wait. jules, wait. wait. wait." "no, i feel stupid." "this is not a good idea." "before you came, i was watching footage ... old footage of you and me and kevin, too." "it helped me." "it gave me perspective." "i think you should watch it with me now." "i think it's important to do that." "come on." " about seven months." "the fuck have you been doing for four years?" "i wanted to disappear." "but i realized that i was stuck with myself... with this body, these memories, and it felt like jail." "no. no." "just come here." " daddy!" "just admit this is what you want." "let me get you some water or something." "okay." " go on. not too fast." " you rolling?" " yeah." "mm-hmm." " you getting this?" " i got it, babe." "showmewhatyou got ." "william, what are you doing here?" "you lied to me." "you want her to hear us?" "huh?" "what'd she think?" "you think she loves you?" "i promise you..." "stop." "...the minute she finds out." "stop." "no. no. no." "listen to me." "listen, listen, listen. stop." "quiet." "everything you are is because of me." "everything you do, everything you think ... everything is because of me." "me, me, me, me, me." "i'm sorry." "i'm sorry." " can you hear me, kevin?" "let'sgo.we 'lltakearide ." "herewego.herewego ." "jules." "i thought that you wanted the same thing. i was ..." "jules, come on." "that was really silly." "god." "i'm in love with you." "that's the only thing i know." "that's the only thing i know is that i am in love with you." "come on." "okay. okay." "i love you." "i love you." "what are you doing?" "what the hell is going on?" "who are you?" "you made him?" "do you realize what you've done?" "do you realize the consequences of what you've done?" "!" "i am the consequences!" "i'm not your proxy." "i'm his proxy." "he made me." "do you understand?" "he was gonna hurt her, and i stopped him." "why are you here?" "i mean, w-why did you come back?" "why now?" "because this is the day that kevin died four years ago." "i thought she'd be better off without me." "i thought i'd be better off without me." "and i tried to reach out." "i tried to make contact, but i couldn't." "i killed our child." "i killed our child." "and so, i moved away." "i moved into this house... alone." "and one day, i looked in the mirror, and there was nothing there." "i was gone." "i was beyond repair." "and that's when the idea hit." "i took a different track." "i went with what i knew." "i thought i could replace myself, make a better version of myself." "i-i could make improvements." "he could hear better." "he could see better." "he would be without the guilt." "and he could help her." "but i did it for her." "i did it all for her." "get up." "listen to me very carefully or you're never gonna see her again." "you understand me?" "you need to leave here." "take her with you, leave, and never come back ... ever." "you understand?" "she's here now?" "i'm gonna burn this place down so no one ever knows what you did here." "but what about you?" "i'm dying." "i'm dying, so... so you get a second chance." "so the least you can do is promise me... she will never be alone again." "you promise me this." "she won't be alone." "now, we don't have long before they get here." "who?" "the men from the lab ..." "the men from upstairs." "you're not william blakely anymore." "he is. you understand?" "give me your coat." "i want to go back." "i want to go back to kill eagle." "we can start over." "..." "like, a rapid form just to get out." "like, they were going that way." "look. what's this?" "i think got it." "oh, wow. that's good." "let's go show your dad." "wow. that's a nice one." "it's been buried." "go show your dad." "oh, wow, what do you got?" "i first found this part of it and i kept on digging and i found the whole thing." "mm-hmm." "that is amazing." "yeah." "a sea creature used to live in there, and the shell was its armor." "yeah, this thing's really old." "it's prehistoric." "400 million years ago, these things were ... these things were around." "and, uh ..." "where is it now?" "well, it died." "it died, and that's how we have the shell." "but the thing with this is if you throw this back in the water, there's a chance that somebody else will use it." "use it how?" "well, they use it." "like, they'll... crawl inside it and make it a new home."