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(OPENING ORCHESTRAL THEME)
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(LAPPING WAVES)
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(DIGGING IN ROCKY SHORE)
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(MUSIC BECOMES MORE DRAMATIC)
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(SPOON CLINKING ON ROCK)
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(SCORE FADES OUT)
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Brecken...
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I don't want you eating
anything you find in there,
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you understand me?
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I don't care what it is.
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Don't care what it is.
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(CICADAS CHIRRING)
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(SURF HITTING SHORE IN DISTANCE)
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(TOOTHBRUSH INTO HOLDER)
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(CRUNCHING)
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(POIGNANT SCORE)
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(CRUNCHING CONTINUES)
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(BED CREAKING)
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(EMOTIONAL BREATHING)
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(SCORE FADES OUT)
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(CHAIR CREAKS)
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(SOFT FOOTFALLS)
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(EDGY SCORE)
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Ah...
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(MUFFLED GRUNTS)
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Mum! Mum!
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- No! No!
- (LEGS THRASHING)
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(MUFFLED SHRIEKS)
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No! No, no!
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(THRASHING STOPS)
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(DJUNA BREATHES HARD)
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(TREMULOUS BREATHING)
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(SCORE FADES OUT)
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(RINGING)
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(RINGING)
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(POIGNANT SCORE)
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(RINGING)
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(CONNECTING BEEPS)
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Yes?
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Yes, it's still Djuna.
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Now you've confirmed
the phone number.
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I want you to tell Lang
that if he's interested
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in picking up the corpse
of that creature
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he calls his son...
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Yes, yes, I mean
the Brecken thing.
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So, you tell him to come
to the address I gave you.
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It will be here, and I won't be.
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(STATIC)
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(CLICK)
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(PHONE CLATTERS TO SHELF)
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(EMOTIONAL SCORE)
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(SHARP NASAL EXHALES)
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(SOBBING)
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(SNIFFLES)
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(SOBBING)
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(GENTLE SURF)
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(SCORE FADES OUT)
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(FOOTFALLS ON ROCKS)
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(DOOR CLOSES)
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(LANG DOTRICE EXHALES)
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(MOVING SCORE)
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(DEEP INHALE; EXHALE)
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(SOBBING)
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Oh, my boy, boy, boy.
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My boy. Oh, my boy.
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(DRAMATIC SCORE)
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(RUMBLING)
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(GUTTURAL NOISES)
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(GAG)
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(GROANING)
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(MOANING)
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(GASP)
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(LOW THRUMMING)
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Saul.
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Saul, darling,
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can you wake up?
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Who's here?
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It's just me.
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It's Caprice.
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Did you sleep?
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(SIGH)
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I think this...
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bed
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needs new software.
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(PAINED BREATHING)
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It's not anticipating
my pain anymore.
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(SHARP GASPS; BREATHING)
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It's not turning me properly.
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Yes, I heard you.
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- A sleepless night.
- (TENSER GAGGING)
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I will call
LifeFormWare right away.
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They're usually very responsive.
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(SHARP EXHALE)
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What else? What else?
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The tests cooked all night
and were ready this morning.
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There is a new hormone
in your bloodstream.
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Ah...
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Great.
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It's about time.
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I thought I was all tapped out.
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- (INHALE)
- (SIGH)
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Dried up.
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You always think that,
and you're always wrong.
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One day, I'll be right.
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Not today.
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(DEEP RUMBLING)
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(SHARP EXHALE)
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Not today.
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(SAUL AND CAPRICE LAUGH)
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It's still before breakfast.
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(WHIRRING; CLICKING)
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What do you see?
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I can feel you pulling things
around in there.
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It seems to be
some small sort of, uh,
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endocrine gland,
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about the size
of an adrenal gland.
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Small.
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That's disappointing.
It's not very dramatic.
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(GROANS)
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It's a brand new organ
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Never before seen.
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Yeah.
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And it's functioning.
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(SAUL GROANS)
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Can you feel it?
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That new hormone?
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Yeah.
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Oh, LifeFormWare.
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(DEEP EXHALE)
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LifeFormWare?
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Yeah.
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The pain is different.
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That's probably why my bed's
computer's having trouble.
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(GROANS)
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This new organ, it's, uh,
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it's shifting my pain centres.
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For better or worse?
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So far, just different.
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(SIGHING)
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How's the artwork progressing?
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It's a slippery surface.
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Hard to be precise with the ink.
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Huh...
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Why not do something
that really looks like a tattoo?
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A heart,
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an anchor,
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"Mother"?
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(LAUGHING)
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That would be playful.
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But the Registry insists on
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"uniquely self-referential."
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Ah, the Registry.
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Of course.
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(SIGH)
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(PLACID SCORE)
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(SPOON CLINKING ON PLATE)
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(NASAL EXHALE)
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(GAGGING)
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(CHAIR THRUMMING)
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(GAGGING)
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(CHAIR CREAKING)
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(GRUNT)
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(GRUNT)
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(GAGGING)
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(GROANS)
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(DRAMATIC SCORE)
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(GAGGING CONTINUES)
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(TENSER SIGHS)
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(COUGHING)
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(COUGH)
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(MOANING)
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(WRAPPER CRINKLING)
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(KNOCKING)
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- (TENSER GRUNTS)
- (APPROACHING FOOTSTEPS)
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Saul Tenser.
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Caprice.
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Oh, my God.
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So you are.
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Welcome.
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I'm Wippet, by the way.
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(DOOR CREAKS)
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Wow, um...
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- (DOOR CLOSES)
- This is a real treat
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and a privilege for us,
isn't it, Timlin?
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That's Timlin.
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This isn't very grand, is it,
but this is
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the National Organ Registry
nonetheless, and
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we're fully equipped,
aren't we, Timlin?
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Um, it's all secret stuff now
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because we're part of
the NVU of Justice,
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but we'll be ready
to break out and go public
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when the time inevitably comes.
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NVU?
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New Vice Unit.
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No crime like the present.
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(SAUL LAUGHS)
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Sorry, we're a little
confused about procedure.
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This is our first time.
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Hm.
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But you understand the necessity
of organ registration
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from a security standpoint?
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We understand
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human bodies are changing.
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(CLEARS THROAT)
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I know this quite well.
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Um...
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And, apparently,
this is of some concern
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to the governments of the world.
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Human bodies, yes.
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"Human" is the operative word.
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Human evolution
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is the concern.
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That it's going wrong.
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00:15:34,578 --> 00:15:35,906
(SAUL; CLEARS THROAT)
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That it's...
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uncontrolled, it's...
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insurrectional.
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It might lead us to a bad place.
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Look what's happened to the
pain thresholds, for instance.
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The world is a
much more dangerous place
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now that p-p-pain
has all but disappeared.
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What good is it
that only a lucky handful of us
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experience pain in our sleep?
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Pain has a function.
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It is a warning system
that we don't have anymore,
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and how did this happen,
what does this mean?
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Or, or what about infections?
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Infections?
What happened to them?
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Nobody washes
their hands anymore.
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What is it...
what is that new, uh, fad,
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uh, what do they call it?
Desktop surgery?
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In public!
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It's repulsive.
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- (CLEARS THROAT)
- Um...
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Our records indicate
that you've been producing
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random and novel bodily organs
for some years,
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but that you've had them
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consistently removed.
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Who wouldn't?
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(WIPPET SCOFFS)
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You'd be surprised.
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We would be surprised.
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They're basically tumours, right?
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Who would want to keep them?
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They could kill you.
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(TENSER GROANS)
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What is the relationship
between you two?
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I remove these tumours
as part of our performance.
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We are performance artists.
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We perform together.
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Hm.
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And you're qualified
to perform surgery?
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00:17:05,743 --> 00:17:08,379
Well, as Mr. Wippet was saying,
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everybody's qualified
to perform surgery these days.
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(WIPPET CHUCKLES)
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If consent is legally given,
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there is really no...
no issue there.
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Hm.
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I was speaking of your
professional relationship.
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You wouldn't want to kill
your performance partner,
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would you?
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You never know.
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There's a lot of improvisation
in our shows.
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Stop it.
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Hm.
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00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:35,280
We met when Saul
was cut up on duty.
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I was a trauma surgeon
at First General.
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We unleashed things in each other.
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We both changed,
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left our professions.
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And now we are what we are.
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Oh.
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You're stars,
that's what you are.
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Gosh, everyone wants to be
a performance artist these days.
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- It's all the rage, but...
- (INHALES)
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not everyone can do it.
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Well, then...
278
00:18:05,644 --> 00:18:07,280
Registration?
279
00:18:07,644 --> 00:18:09,280
(GENTLE SCORE)
280
00:18:09,315 --> 00:18:10,744
(CLICKING)
281
00:18:14,611 --> 00:18:16,247
(GEARS CLACKING)
282
00:18:16,513 --> 00:18:18,148
(SNORING)
283
00:18:21,611 --> 00:18:23,346
Oh, my.
284
00:18:23,381 --> 00:18:27,247
Oh, it is so beautiful!
285
00:18:28,644 --> 00:18:30,774
I can't quite see it
from my angle.
286
00:18:30,809 --> 00:18:32,379
Can you pick it up
from where you are?
287
00:18:32,414 --> 00:18:34,774
Oh, yes. It's-it's very clear.
288
00:18:34,809 --> 00:18:36,906
Oh, gosh!
289
00:18:36,941 --> 00:18:38,642
It is a gorgeous,
290
00:18:38,677 --> 00:18:41,675
I might even say, sensual example
291
00:18:41,710 --> 00:18:43,807
of the registration tatooist's art.
292
00:18:43,842 --> 00:18:46,609
Why don't you tell us
what a registration tattoo is?
293
00:18:46,644 --> 00:18:48,280
Well, um...
294
00:18:48,315 --> 00:18:50,642
...we here at the
National Organ Registry
295
00:18:51,381 --> 00:18:53,774
have just instituted
a new policy
296
00:18:53,809 --> 00:18:56,609
of tattooing novel organs,
297
00:18:56,875 --> 00:18:58,840
or idiopathic organs, that is,
298
00:18:58,875 --> 00:19:02,544
new organs whose function
is unknown,
299
00:19:02,578 --> 00:19:05,609
so that they can be registered
300
00:19:05,644 --> 00:19:07,181
and kept track of.
301
00:19:07,216 --> 00:19:08,511
(MOAN)
302
00:19:08,546 --> 00:19:09,840
Um, our fear is...
303
00:19:09,875 --> 00:19:12,379
that some of these neo-organs
304
00:19:12,414 --> 00:19:15,346
might establish themselves genetically,
305
00:19:15,381 --> 00:19:20,148
and then be passed down
from parents to children,
306
00:19:20,183 --> 00:19:22,675
who would then no longer be,
307
00:19:23,249 --> 00:19:25,181
strictly speaking, human.
308
00:19:25,677 --> 00:19:27,412
At least, in the classical sense.
309
00:19:28,776 --> 00:19:32,576
Our concept
of the registration tattoo
310
00:19:32,611 --> 00:19:34,675
was largely inspired by
the performance art
311
00:19:34,710 --> 00:19:36,214
(SIGH)
312
00:19:36,249 --> 00:19:37,741
Of Saul Tenser.
313
00:19:37,776 --> 00:19:40,807
Oh, I'm so sorry, but it's
forbidden to record in here.
314
00:19:40,842 --> 00:19:43,511
Oh, right, right. She's right.
315
00:19:43,546 --> 00:19:46,576
I was thinking we could use it
for our performance.
316
00:19:47,249 --> 00:19:48,774
We record
the most intimate things.
317
00:19:48,809 --> 00:19:50,741
I'm sorry, but it is illegal.
318
00:19:50,776 --> 00:19:52,511
This department
does not yet exist.
319
00:19:55,381 --> 00:19:56,906
Right, if it doesn't exist,
320
00:19:56,941 --> 00:20:00,148
then, I guess, it's impossible
to make a recording.
321
00:20:00,183 --> 00:20:01,609
- Sorry.
- (LAUGHS)
322
00:20:01,941 --> 00:20:03,576
Too bad.
323
00:20:06,743 --> 00:20:08,379
(WIPPET SIGHS)
324
00:20:09,776 --> 00:20:11,412
(EXHALES)
325
00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:14,148
(COMPRESSORS HUMMING)
326
00:20:14,183 --> 00:20:16,258
I don't think you should have
invited those two creeps
327
00:20:16,282 --> 00:20:17,807
from the registry to our show.
328
00:20:19,414 --> 00:20:21,346
- Why not?
- (CLEARS THROAT)
329
00:20:21,381 --> 00:20:23,313
Why not get 'em on our side?
330
00:20:23,611 --> 00:20:25,247
I don't trust them.
331
00:20:25,710 --> 00:20:27,445
The woman, Timlin,
332
00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:28,873
she's, uh...
333
00:20:28,908 --> 00:20:30,708
especially creepy.
334
00:20:30,743 --> 00:20:32,379
Hm.
335
00:20:32,414 --> 00:20:34,511
I thought she was
rather attractive.
336
00:20:34,546 --> 00:20:36,181
In a...
337
00:20:36,216 --> 00:20:37,642
bureaucratic way.
338
00:20:37,677 --> 00:20:39,313
Hm.
339
00:20:42,875 --> 00:20:44,741
The LifeFormWare technicians
are here.
340
00:20:45,546 --> 00:20:47,774
They need to see you
in your bed.
341
00:20:47,809 --> 00:20:49,445
(GROANS)
342
00:20:50,381 --> 00:20:52,346
I'm a little upset about the tattoo.
343
00:20:53,908 --> 00:20:55,544
Oh?
344
00:20:55,743 --> 00:20:57,379
(CLEARS HIS THROAT)
345
00:20:57,414 --> 00:20:58,840
Rambunctious.
346
00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:00,906
That's what I'd call it.
347
00:21:00,941 --> 00:21:02,840
That's a technical term?
348
00:21:03,348 --> 00:21:04,774
TENSER: Uh.
349
00:21:04,809 --> 00:21:06,445
(SIGH)
350
00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:08,807
It takes over the form,
351
00:21:10,447 --> 00:21:13,313
the shape of the organ itself.
352
00:21:13,348 --> 00:21:16,148
It really, in a sense, dominates it,
353
00:21:16,183 --> 00:21:17,544
reshapes it.
354
00:21:17,578 --> 00:21:19,675
It's not just parasitic,
355
00:21:19,710 --> 00:21:22,181
although I suppose,
in a sense, it is that too.
356
00:21:22,216 --> 00:21:23,642
It seems to take meaning
357
00:21:23,677 --> 00:21:25,214
(CLEARS THROAT)
358
00:21:25,249 --> 00:21:26,675
Away from the organ.
359
00:21:27,414 --> 00:21:29,642
Takes the process of meaning
360
00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,115
for itself,
361
00:21:32,447 --> 00:21:33,873
so to speak.
362
00:21:43,809 --> 00:21:45,544
You'd really better
get into bed.
363
00:21:46,908 --> 00:21:48,544
There, there.
364
00:21:49,677 --> 00:21:51,478
You'll be comfortable
again soon.
365
00:21:53,381 --> 00:21:56,412
OrchidBed is our
top of the line bed.
366
00:21:58,348 --> 00:22:00,708
Once we correct the misalignment
367
00:22:00,743 --> 00:22:02,379
caused by your...
368
00:22:03,282 --> 00:22:04,708
hormonal imbalance,
369
00:22:04,743 --> 00:22:06,379
(SQUELCHING)
370
00:22:06,414 --> 00:22:07,840
You'll be floating.
371
00:22:07,875 --> 00:22:09,511
- (DEEP RUMBLING)
- Huh.
372
00:22:09,546 --> 00:22:11,181
Isn't that right, Berst?
373
00:22:12,282 --> 00:22:13,708
Uh-uh.
374
00:22:13,743 --> 00:22:16,214
Yeah, these things are
basically bulletproof.
375
00:22:16,249 --> 00:22:18,544
This bed loves your body,
Mr. Tenser.
376
00:22:18,578 --> 00:22:20,511
It is so flexible,
377
00:22:20,546 --> 00:22:22,642
so attuned to every shift
of your pain centres,
378
00:22:22,677 --> 00:22:24,247
it's a beautiful thing
to behold.
379
00:22:24,282 --> 00:22:25,642
(TENSER MOANS)
380
00:22:25,677 --> 00:22:28,906
I see you actually have
several of our units here,
381
00:22:28,941 --> 00:22:31,214
- don't you?
- Mm-hm.
382
00:22:31,249 --> 00:22:33,873
The OrchidBed Bed,
the Break Faster Chair,
383
00:22:33,908 --> 00:22:36,576
that'll probably need
some adjustment as well.
384
00:22:36,611 --> 00:22:38,181
We can...
385
00:22:38,216 --> 00:22:39,675
download your
OrchidBed co-ordinates
386
00:22:39,710 --> 00:22:42,379
into the Break Faster,
tweak the EatWare parameters,
387
00:22:42,414 --> 00:22:44,346
and we should be very close.
388
00:22:44,941 --> 00:22:46,544
(PAPERS CRINKLING)
389
00:22:51,644 --> 00:22:53,280
Oh, my God.
390
00:22:55,414 --> 00:22:56,840
Router.
391
00:22:56,875 --> 00:22:58,511
What is it?
392
00:23:00,513 --> 00:23:02,445
Mr. Tenser has a Sark unit here.
393
00:23:03,776 --> 00:23:05,412
(GASP)
394
00:23:05,447 --> 00:23:07,313
(FAST FOOTSTEPS)
395
00:23:08,611 --> 00:23:10,247
(SIGH)
396
00:23:10,282 --> 00:23:11,708
Yes.
397
00:23:12,282 --> 00:23:13,708
He really does.
398
00:23:14,249 --> 00:23:15,675
(GENTLE SCORE)
399
00:23:28,546 --> 00:23:31,576
The Sark autopsy module
was one of the best units
400
00:23:31,611 --> 00:23:33,247
we ever made. It's gorgeous.
401
00:23:33,282 --> 00:23:34,708
They're legendary.
402
00:23:34,743 --> 00:23:36,346
So complex.
403
00:23:36,381 --> 00:23:37,807
So subtle.
404
00:23:38,776 --> 00:23:40,906
Do you ever work
on one of these?
405
00:23:40,941 --> 00:23:43,313
They stopped making them
before our time.
406
00:23:43,348 --> 00:23:45,511
I've never seen one
in the flesh before.
407
00:23:45,546 --> 00:23:47,544
- (SCOFFS)
- They're legendary.
408
00:23:48,249 --> 00:23:49,774
What do you use it for?
409
00:23:50,282 --> 00:23:52,445
You're not in the
autopsy business, are you?
410
00:23:53,348 --> 00:23:54,774
It's my paint brush.
411
00:23:56,414 --> 00:23:57,840
(INDUSTRIAL SCORE)
412
00:24:10,875 --> 00:24:12,511
(CLICKS)
413
00:24:12,842 --> 00:24:14,478
(GEARS WHIRRING)
414
00:24:59,447 --> 00:25:00,873
(MECHANICAL WHIRRING AND GRINDING)
415
00:25:10,216 --> 00:25:11,642
(INHALE)
416
00:25:15,249 --> 00:25:16,675
(WHIRRING)
417
00:25:34,183 --> 00:25:35,609
(SQUELCHING)
418
00:25:43,315 --> 00:25:44,741
(CRINKLING)
419
00:25:51,809 --> 00:25:53,445
(SQUELCHING)
420
00:26:22,249 --> 00:26:23,675
(CHIRPING)
421
00:26:29,414 --> 00:26:30,840
(AUDIENCE GASPS)
422
00:26:43,381 --> 00:26:44,807
(HIGH-PITCHED WHINE)
423
00:26:50,644 --> 00:26:52,280
(INDUSTRIAL MUSIC ENDS)
424
00:26:52,315 --> 00:26:53,741
(MULTIPLE INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
425
00:26:56,710 --> 00:26:58,346
(TENSER SPEAKS QUIETLY)
426
00:26:59,249 --> 00:27:00,675
(GLASSWARE CLINKING)
427
00:27:02,381 --> 00:27:03,741
Hm.
428
00:27:05,282 --> 00:27:07,675
Mm, oh, my God,
look at this thing.
429
00:27:15,282 --> 00:27:16,741
No, you can't.
430
00:27:18,941 --> 00:27:20,576
(GLASSES CLINK)
431
00:27:20,611 --> 00:27:22,247
Oh, my God.
432
00:27:23,414 --> 00:27:24,840
Oh, my God.
433
00:27:28,611 --> 00:27:30,247
It's not that small.
434
00:27:31,809 --> 00:27:33,412
Quite big, actually.
435
00:27:33,447 --> 00:27:34,840
Hm.
436
00:27:34,875 --> 00:27:37,445
Do you mind if I ask you
something intimate?
437
00:27:38,611 --> 00:27:40,247
Hi.
438
00:27:40,282 --> 00:27:41,708
No, go ahead.
439
00:27:46,447 --> 00:27:48,181
That surgery is sex, isn't it?
440
00:27:48,809 --> 00:27:50,412
Is it?
441
00:27:50,447 --> 00:27:51,873
Hm.
442
00:27:51,908 --> 00:27:53,544
You know it is.
443
00:27:55,249 --> 00:27:56,675
Surgery is the new sex.
444
00:27:57,644 --> 00:27:59,280
Hm.
445
00:27:59,315 --> 00:28:01,148
Does there have to be new sex?
446
00:28:01,183 --> 00:28:02,609
Yes.
447
00:28:03,348 --> 00:28:04,774
Yes, it's time.
448
00:28:05,447 --> 00:28:07,609
When I was watching
Caprice cut into you,
449
00:28:09,216 --> 00:28:10,642
I wanted...
450
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:15,115
Yes?
451
00:28:17,282 --> 00:28:19,445
I wanted you
to be cutting into me.
452
00:28:20,677 --> 00:28:22,313
That's when I knew.
453
00:28:23,743 --> 00:28:25,379
Hm.
454
00:28:30,644 --> 00:28:32,280
- (GLASS DOWN)
- Hm?
455
00:28:32,315 --> 00:28:33,741
What was that all about?
456
00:28:36,183 --> 00:28:37,609
Just another epiphany.
457
00:28:39,315 --> 00:28:41,247
Art triumphs once again.
458
00:28:43,249 --> 00:28:44,675
Hm.
459
00:28:46,381 --> 00:28:49,511
His body needs are subtle and
they're constantly shifting.
460
00:28:49,842 --> 00:28:51,478
We feel,
461
00:28:51,513 --> 00:28:54,544
Danny Router and I do,
that the Tenser account
462
00:28:54,578 --> 00:28:56,412
will force
our entire organization
463
00:28:56,447 --> 00:28:59,906
into new,
exhilarating territory.
464
00:28:59,941 --> 00:29:01,576
Saul Tenser is...
465
00:29:01,611 --> 00:29:03,807
an artist
of the inner landscape.
466
00:29:04,809 --> 00:29:08,280
Creation of art
is often associated with pain,
467
00:29:08,315 --> 00:29:11,576
and pain, as we know,
is always associated with sleep.
468
00:29:11,611 --> 00:29:14,181
We at LifeFormWare specialize in
469
00:29:14,216 --> 00:29:15,642
manipulating
470
00:29:15,677 --> 00:29:18,609
and modulating
the pain of artists,
471
00:29:18,644 --> 00:29:20,280
and, to us,
472
00:29:20,315 --> 00:29:22,445
Saul Tenser
is the greatest challenge,
473
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:26,115
so intimate and involving
in his art,
474
00:29:26,908 --> 00:29:28,675
and the nature of his pain.
475
00:29:29,578 --> 00:29:31,313
A good night's sleep is a...
476
00:29:31,578 --> 00:29:33,741
hard thing to define
when you're an artist
477
00:29:33,776 --> 00:29:35,412
and you seek pain.
478
00:29:36,644 --> 00:29:38,280
(TENSE SCORE)
479
00:29:41,216 --> 00:29:42,642
(GROANS)
480
00:30:10,348 --> 00:30:11,774
(TENSE SCORE ENDS)
481
00:30:12,315 --> 00:30:14,148
(APPROACHING FOOTSTEPS)
482
00:30:23,183 --> 00:30:24,609
(APPROACHING FOOTSTEPS)
483
00:30:28,381 --> 00:30:29,807
Hm.
484
00:30:38,513 --> 00:30:40,148
Sit down.
485
00:30:44,875 --> 00:30:46,511
I'm Detective Cope.
486
00:30:46,546 --> 00:30:48,181
I'm with New Vice.
487
00:30:48,908 --> 00:30:50,544
And you are?
488
00:30:50,578 --> 00:30:52,511
- Wippet.
- Timlin.
489
00:30:52,546 --> 00:30:54,544
Hm, yes, good.
490
00:30:54,578 --> 00:30:57,609
Have you had recent dealings
with the performance artist,
491
00:30:57,644 --> 00:30:59,280
Saul Tenser?
492
00:31:01,546 --> 00:31:03,181
Yes.
493
00:31:04,513 --> 00:31:07,445
And you have a portfolio
of all the neo-organs
494
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:08,807
which he has
495
00:31:08,842 --> 00:31:10,807
developed and removed?
496
00:31:15,414 --> 00:31:16,840
He donated it to us.
497
00:31:16,875 --> 00:31:18,478
(INHALES)
498
00:31:18,513 --> 00:31:21,280
He was the first
to undertake the logging,
499
00:31:21,315 --> 00:31:22,741
the archiving,
500
00:31:22,776 --> 00:31:24,478
of his inner creations.
501
00:31:24,809 --> 00:31:27,642
We call it the
Tenser Organography.
502
00:31:27,677 --> 00:31:29,445
For him, it was an art thing,
503
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,412
an artist wanting
a systematized record
504
00:31:31,447 --> 00:31:32,873
of his art.
505
00:31:35,183 --> 00:31:36,774
But, for us, it triggered
506
00:31:36,809 --> 00:31:39,840
an awareness of the flow,
the significance
507
00:31:39,875 --> 00:31:41,708
of these spontaneous growths
508
00:31:41,743 --> 00:31:44,478
which many people
were experiencing in secret.
509
00:31:44,513 --> 00:31:47,478
So, now, we have
actually required
510
00:31:47,513 --> 00:31:49,576
the legal registering
of these growths.
511
00:31:49,611 --> 00:31:51,544
The registering
of a genuine, new...
512
00:31:51,875 --> 00:31:53,511
Saul Tenser internal organ...
513
00:31:53,546 --> 00:31:56,478
It's like discovering
a new species of animal.
514
00:31:57,249 --> 00:31:58,675
Well,
515
00:31:58,710 --> 00:32:00,445
more like discovering
a new Picasso.
516
00:32:02,216 --> 00:32:04,774
How can a tumorous growth
be considered art?
517
00:32:06,578 --> 00:32:08,214
Where is the emotional shaping,
518
00:32:08,809 --> 00:32:10,445
the philosophical understanding,
519
00:32:10,941 --> 00:32:12,675
which is basic to all art?
520
00:32:14,381 --> 00:32:15,906
- (TIMLIN SCOFFS)
- (WIPPET SIGHS)
521
00:32:15,941 --> 00:32:17,478
(SCOFFS AGAIN)
522
00:32:17,513 --> 00:32:19,148
Look...
523
00:32:21,249 --> 00:32:23,445
I have a lump on my abdomen.
524
00:32:26,183 --> 00:32:27,609
You see it?
525
00:32:29,282 --> 00:32:30,708
Picasso?
526
00:32:30,743 --> 00:32:32,379
Duchamp?
527
00:32:32,941 --> 00:32:34,576
Francis Bacon, perhaps?
528
00:32:36,249 --> 00:32:37,675
Am I an artist?
529
00:32:38,183 --> 00:32:39,609
(CLEARS THROAT)
530
00:32:41,644 --> 00:32:43,280
(INHALE)
531
00:32:43,842 --> 00:32:45,807
He takes the rebellion
of his own body
532
00:32:45,842 --> 00:32:47,478
and seizes control of it.
533
00:32:48,315 --> 00:32:49,741
Shapes it,
534
00:32:49,776 --> 00:32:51,412
tattoos it, displays it,
535
00:32:52,644 --> 00:32:54,280
creates theatre out of it.
536
00:32:54,546 --> 00:32:57,642
It has meaning,
very potent meaning, and...
537
00:32:58,611 --> 00:33:00,478
many, many people respond to it.
538
00:33:00,513 --> 00:33:02,148
- (LAUGHS)
- Yes.
539
00:33:02,941 --> 00:33:04,576
Tattoos it?
540
00:33:05,546 --> 00:33:07,181
Here we go.
541
00:33:09,348 --> 00:33:10,774
Hm.
542
00:33:10,809 --> 00:33:12,445
You see?
543
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:14,544
See, right from the beginning,
544
00:33:14,578 --> 00:33:16,214
after he met Caprice,
545
00:33:17,414 --> 00:33:19,511
all his neo-organs were tattooed
546
00:33:19,546 --> 00:33:21,609
while they were still
inside his body.
547
00:33:22,315 --> 00:33:23,741
Caprice is his lover?
548
00:33:24,381 --> 00:33:26,115
Caprice is
his performance partner.
549
00:33:27,249 --> 00:33:28,675
She does the tattoos.
550
00:33:29,381 --> 00:33:30,807
And the surgery.
551
00:33:31,578 --> 00:33:33,214
Hm.
552
00:33:38,513 --> 00:33:40,247
(TIMLIN INHALES SHARPLY
THROUGH HER NOSE)
553
00:33:41,282 --> 00:33:42,708
(TIMLIN SIGHS)
554
00:33:42,743 --> 00:33:45,247
Looks to me as though
Caprice is the artist.
555
00:33:45,908 --> 00:33:47,840
Tenser is just
a glorified organ donor.
556
00:33:49,447 --> 00:33:50,873
(WIPPET LAUGHS)
557
00:33:51,677 --> 00:33:54,544
Well, there are
the performances.
558
00:33:55,447 --> 00:33:58,148
And, then-then,
there is the question of will.
559
00:34:01,875 --> 00:34:03,511
Will?
560
00:34:03,546 --> 00:34:05,181
Yes.
561
00:34:05,611 --> 00:34:07,346
We believe,
that on a certain level,
562
00:34:07,381 --> 00:34:09,313
perhaps a subconscious one,
563
00:34:09,348 --> 00:34:13,181
Saul Tenser
wills these new organs to grow.
564
00:34:14,611 --> 00:34:16,247
So...
565
00:34:16,809 --> 00:34:18,445
(COPE SIGHS)
566
00:34:19,611 --> 00:34:23,280
Hm, you really ought to get that
lump on your abdomen looked at.
567
00:34:27,677 --> 00:34:29,313
(GROAN)
568
00:34:29,348 --> 00:34:31,148
(ROLLING DOOR OPENING)
569
00:34:31,183 --> 00:34:32,609
(CART ROLLING ACROSS FLOOR)
570
00:34:34,447 --> 00:34:35,873
(TENSER MOANS)
571
00:34:35,908 --> 00:34:37,445
(CHAIR SLIDING ON FLOOR)
572
00:34:37,776 --> 00:34:39,412
(CLATTERING)
573
00:34:39,447 --> 00:34:40,873
(FOOTSTEPS)
574
00:34:41,776 --> 00:34:43,412
(TENSER MOANS)
575
00:34:44,183 --> 00:34:45,609
Saul?
576
00:34:45,908 --> 00:34:48,247
Saul, darling, can you wake up?
577
00:34:48,578 --> 00:34:50,214
(SOFT MOAN)
578
00:34:52,216 --> 00:34:54,675
Your bed says that you're
working on something new.
579
00:34:55,249 --> 00:34:56,675
Can that be right?
580
00:34:57,381 --> 00:34:58,807
So soon?
581
00:34:59,776 --> 00:35:01,412
The bed is very quiet.
582
00:35:03,776 --> 00:35:05,544
The bed is never wrong.
583
00:35:08,282 --> 00:35:09,708
(SIGH)
584
00:35:09,743 --> 00:35:12,511
Just ask our friends
at LifeFormWare.
585
00:35:13,941 --> 00:35:15,576
(MOANS)
586
00:35:15,611 --> 00:35:17,544
Is this something
we should worry about?
587
00:35:19,447 --> 00:35:22,280
The interval between growths
seems to be closing up.
588
00:35:22,578 --> 00:35:24,675
I'm feeling very creative.
589
00:35:26,216 --> 00:35:27,642
I guess.
590
00:35:30,546 --> 00:35:33,313
We'll just have to
start cutting faster.
591
00:35:34,908 --> 00:35:36,511
(TENSE SCORE)
592
00:35:36,546 --> 00:35:38,148
(SQUELCHING)
593
00:35:40,908 --> 00:35:43,544
It is time to stop seeing.
594
00:35:48,644 --> 00:35:51,544
It is time to stop speaking.
595
00:35:56,249 --> 00:35:57,675
It is time
596
00:35:57,710 --> 00:35:59,346
to listen.
597
00:36:05,941 --> 00:36:07,576
(LOUD HOUSE MUSIC)
598
00:36:56,941 --> 00:36:58,675
I don't like the ears.
599
00:37:02,447 --> 00:37:03,873
What?
600
00:37:03,908 --> 00:37:05,544
The ears.
601
00:37:06,381 --> 00:37:09,148
They're cute,
they're striking, but
602
00:37:09,183 --> 00:37:11,478
a thousand ears
is not good design.
603
00:37:12,644 --> 00:37:14,313
Surround sound?
604
00:37:15,249 --> 00:37:17,214
The extra ears don't even work.
605
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:19,148
They're just for show.
606
00:37:19,743 --> 00:37:21,379
How do you know?
607
00:37:21,414 --> 00:37:23,115
I'm Adrienne Berceau.
608
00:37:23,809 --> 00:37:26,346
I'm Klinek's
Biomorphology Coordinator.
609
00:37:29,414 --> 00:37:32,148
Don't tell him I said this,
but he's better with the dancing
610
00:37:32,183 --> 00:37:34,115
than he is
with the conceptual art.
611
00:37:37,513 --> 00:37:39,675
Are you working
on anything new, Mr. Tenser?
612
00:37:40,677 --> 00:37:42,313
I never really know
613
00:37:42,348 --> 00:37:43,873
when I'm
working on something new.
614
00:37:43,908 --> 00:37:45,379
(CLEARS THROAT)
615
00:37:45,414 --> 00:37:47,346
It doesn't
seem to be my decision.
616
00:37:47,809 --> 00:37:49,445
What if it is?
617
00:37:51,809 --> 00:37:53,445
If it is?
618
00:37:53,677 --> 00:37:56,609
The creation of inner beauty
cannot be an accident.
619
00:37:57,216 --> 00:37:59,379
Forgive me
for quoting you and your show.
620
00:38:02,908 --> 00:38:04,642
Have you heard of Dr. Nasatir?
621
00:38:06,249 --> 00:38:07,675
No.
622
00:38:10,644 --> 00:38:12,576
You should pay him a visit.
623
00:38:13,842 --> 00:38:16,148
Inner beauty is his specialty,
624
00:38:16,183 --> 00:38:17,609
as it is yours.
625
00:38:22,546 --> 00:38:24,247
I've booked you an appointment.
626
00:38:24,578 --> 00:38:26,313
Go to the address written here.
627
00:38:29,414 --> 00:38:31,906
A consultation
about a medical problem?
628
00:38:31,941 --> 00:38:34,576
A consultation about
a political problem.
629
00:38:42,282 --> 00:38:43,708
(SLOW FOOTSTEPS)
630
00:38:46,611 --> 00:38:48,247
(WOMAN MOANS)
631
00:38:51,809 --> 00:38:53,412
(TENSER CLEARS THROAT)
632
00:38:53,908 --> 00:38:55,544
(GROANS)
633
00:39:06,875 --> 00:39:08,807
I have a concept for you.
634
00:39:08,842 --> 00:39:10,478
Yeah?
635
00:39:10,513 --> 00:39:12,148
Yeah, yeah.
636
00:39:12,183 --> 00:39:14,247
It came to me when I saw you
637
00:39:14,282 --> 00:39:16,478
use a Sark unit
as part of your show.
638
00:39:16,513 --> 00:39:18,445
The Sark was originally
an autopsy module.
639
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:20,181
Did you know that?
640
00:39:20,216 --> 00:39:21,642
I knew that.
641
00:39:22,644 --> 00:39:25,544
Have you ever thought about
using it for a real autopsy?
642
00:39:25,578 --> 00:39:27,214
As part of your show?
643
00:39:28,611 --> 00:39:30,247
Perform an autopsy?
644
00:39:30,282 --> 00:39:31,840
On a corpse. Mm-hm.
645
00:39:31,875 --> 00:39:33,609
I have a corpse for you.
646
00:39:33,644 --> 00:39:35,280
It's a very special corpse.
647
00:39:36,216 --> 00:39:38,741
You could do a live autopsy
on a dead body.
648
00:39:38,776 --> 00:39:41,807
And there would be surprises.
I can guarantee a few surprises.
649
00:39:41,842 --> 00:39:43,774
What corpse
are you talking about?
650
00:39:44,513 --> 00:39:45,906
My son.
651
00:39:45,941 --> 00:39:47,576
Eight years old.
652
00:39:48,578 --> 00:39:50,214
(TENSER CLEARS HIS THROAT)
653
00:39:50,249 --> 00:39:51,741
Why is he a corpse?
654
00:39:51,776 --> 00:39:53,906
His mother murdered him.
Wouldn't that be...
655
00:39:53,941 --> 00:39:55,675
good raw material
for a performance?
656
00:39:59,908 --> 00:40:01,840
You have the body of your son?
657
00:40:02,513 --> 00:40:04,906
Yes, of course I have
the body of my son.
658
00:40:04,941 --> 00:40:06,576
He's my son.
659
00:40:07,578 --> 00:40:09,214
Wow.
660
00:40:09,249 --> 00:40:10,675
Yeah, I know.
661
00:40:11,710 --> 00:40:13,576
I mean, how radical are you?
662
00:40:13,611 --> 00:40:15,412
Hm?
663
00:40:15,447 --> 00:40:17,379
Are you afraid of a little emotion?
664
00:40:17,414 --> 00:40:18,840
(TENSER COUGHS)
665
00:40:19,249 --> 00:40:20,774
I'm afraid of everything.
666
00:40:20,809 --> 00:40:22,346
(DOTRICE SCOFFS)
667
00:40:22,381 --> 00:40:23,807
(TENSER COUGHS)
668
00:40:26,842 --> 00:40:28,478
(GAGS)
669
00:40:29,875 --> 00:40:31,511
(COUGHS)
670
00:40:31,546 --> 00:40:33,181
(GROANS)
671
00:40:33,216 --> 00:40:34,642
The throat thing
672
00:40:35,546 --> 00:40:37,181
is very severe
673
00:40:37,414 --> 00:40:38,840
today.
674
00:40:39,348 --> 00:40:40,774
I can't open it.
675
00:40:41,710 --> 00:40:43,346
What's going on?
676
00:40:45,578 --> 00:40:47,214
I am not sure.
677
00:40:49,776 --> 00:40:52,511
You were out
for a very long time yesterday.
678
00:40:52,546 --> 00:40:54,181
Yeah.
679
00:40:54,776 --> 00:40:56,412
It's not my allergies.
680
00:40:57,348 --> 00:40:58,774
In fact,
681
00:40:59,875 --> 00:41:01,511
they're not bothering me.
682
00:41:01,546 --> 00:41:03,445
- (COUGHS)
- It's strange.
683
00:41:03,809 --> 00:41:05,445
Are you in discomfort?
684
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:07,148
No, it's a...
685
00:41:07,183 --> 00:41:08,741
compelling fullness.
686
00:41:10,677 --> 00:41:12,412
Not a completely bad feeling.
687
00:41:13,216 --> 00:41:14,642
- At least not...
- (SWALLOWS HARD)
688
00:41:15,611 --> 00:41:17,247
uninteresting.
689
00:41:18,249 --> 00:41:19,675
(SIGHS)
690
00:41:19,710 --> 00:41:21,642
I went to see the Klinek.
691
00:41:22,710 --> 00:41:24,346
How was it?
692
00:41:24,381 --> 00:41:26,313
- (EXHALES)
- The usual.
693
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:28,906
(GAGS)
694
00:41:28,941 --> 00:41:30,576
- (EXHALES)
- It was packed.
695
00:41:31,644 --> 00:41:33,280
Jealous?
696
00:41:33,875 --> 00:41:35,840
Of course.
697
00:41:35,875 --> 00:41:38,181
- But that's not it.
- (CLEARS THROAT)
698
00:41:38,216 --> 00:41:39,642
I met this guy...
699
00:41:40,611 --> 00:41:42,247
(GAGS)
700
00:41:42,282 --> 00:41:43,642
- On the street.
- (CLEARS THROAT)
701
00:41:43,677 --> 00:41:45,313
He had an idea
702
00:41:45,941 --> 00:41:47,576
for a show.
703
00:41:49,677 --> 00:41:51,313
(GENTLE SCORE)
704
00:41:53,447 --> 00:41:55,511
(CLICKING; BEEPING)
705
00:41:56,447 --> 00:41:57,873
So,
706
00:41:57,908 --> 00:41:59,544
I'm the boy's corpse.
707
00:42:00,776 --> 00:42:02,511
We'll have to modify the Sark.
708
00:42:02,546 --> 00:42:04,181
Hm.
709
00:42:04,216 --> 00:42:06,379
Convert it back
into an autopsy module.
710
00:42:07,414 --> 00:42:08,840
(TENSER EXHALES)
711
00:42:09,381 --> 00:42:11,148
I don't know where the law is
712
00:42:11,183 --> 00:42:13,807
on acts degrading to human remains.
713
00:42:15,546 --> 00:42:17,181
(WHIRRING)
714
00:42:17,216 --> 00:42:20,214
We'll have to be outrageous
to make it worthwhile.
715
00:42:22,414 --> 00:42:23,840
We have to go deep.
716
00:42:23,875 --> 00:42:25,511
(EXHALE)
717
00:42:29,875 --> 00:42:31,511
(CAPRICE MOANS)
718
00:42:31,546 --> 00:42:33,181
(WHIRRING)
719
00:42:33,677 --> 00:42:35,313
(CAPRICE MOANS)
720
00:42:35,809 --> 00:42:38,906
I'm not sure how we'd play
the inner beauty angle.
721
00:42:38,941 --> 00:42:41,511
This guy, Dotrice,
he said there'd be surprises...
722
00:42:41,546 --> 00:42:43,181
- (GASP)
- Oops.
723
00:42:43,644 --> 00:42:45,708
- Oh.
- Sorry.
724
00:42:45,743 --> 00:42:47,478
That was the machinery talking.
725
00:42:48,282 --> 00:42:49,708
That was you talking.
726
00:42:51,908 --> 00:42:53,675
Keep going.
727
00:42:53,710 --> 00:42:55,346
(CAPRICE SIGHS DEEPLY)
728
00:42:55,611 --> 00:42:57,247
Really?
729
00:42:57,776 --> 00:42:59,412
So far...
730
00:42:59,776 --> 00:43:01,412
so good.
731
00:43:02,513 --> 00:43:04,148
(CAPRICE EXHALES)
732
00:43:04,183 --> 00:43:05,609
(MACHINERY CHIRPING)
733
00:43:09,513 --> 00:43:11,148
Oh...
734
00:43:11,710 --> 00:43:13,346
(CAPRICE MOANS)
735
00:43:14,216 --> 00:43:15,642
Oh...
736
00:43:16,941 --> 00:43:19,214
Oh! Oh...
737
00:43:19,447 --> 00:43:20,873
(EXHALING)
738
00:43:23,348 --> 00:43:26,379
You could be on the inside
for the next show.
739
00:43:26,677 --> 00:43:28,313
Maybe.
740
00:43:30,249 --> 00:43:31,840
But maybe
741
00:43:31,875 --> 00:43:33,511
this is just for us.
742
00:43:45,578 --> 00:43:47,214
(CONTROLLER CLICKS, CHIRPS)
743
00:43:47,677 --> 00:43:49,313
(MACHINERY WHIRRING)
744
00:43:52,809 --> 00:43:54,445
(RAPID BEEPING)
745
00:43:56,611 --> 00:43:58,247
(CHIRPING)
746
00:44:04,315 --> 00:44:05,741
(WHIRRING)
747
00:44:11,513 --> 00:44:13,148
(SQUELCHING)
748
00:44:31,710 --> 00:44:33,346
(WIND BLOWING; SURF IN DISTANCE)
749
00:44:39,842 --> 00:44:41,478
(APPROACHING FOOTSTEPS)
750
00:44:52,282 --> 00:44:53,708
How are you feeling?
751
00:44:54,677 --> 00:44:56,313
What do you mean?
752
00:44:57,513 --> 00:44:59,247
Got anything cooking in there?
753
00:45:00,315 --> 00:45:01,741
Huh.
754
00:45:01,776 --> 00:45:04,247
Your imagination's working overtime.
755
00:45:05,710 --> 00:45:07,840
I just got to see your portfolio.
756
00:45:07,875 --> 00:45:09,511
You are very prolific.
757
00:45:09,908 --> 00:45:11,544
I had no idea.
758
00:45:11,875 --> 00:45:13,511
It must be exhausting, uh?
759
00:45:14,216 --> 00:45:15,840
I could live without it.
760
00:45:15,875 --> 00:45:18,214
Listen, illuminate me.
761
00:45:18,249 --> 00:45:20,807
Why is Saul Tenser
doing undercover?
762
00:45:20,842 --> 00:45:22,906
I mean, you seem to be
pretty deep
763
00:45:22,941 --> 00:45:24,576
into that body-art stuff.
764
00:45:24,611 --> 00:45:26,247
Well...
765
00:45:28,249 --> 00:45:31,148
What I'm saying with that
body-art stuff
766
00:45:31,908 --> 00:45:34,708
is that I don't like
what's happening with the body.
767
00:45:35,414 --> 00:45:37,609
In particular,
what's happening with my body,
768
00:45:38,348 --> 00:45:39,873
which is why
I keep cutting it up.
769
00:45:39,908 --> 00:45:41,544
Your partner, Caprice,
770
00:45:42,611 --> 00:45:44,181
she's in the dark about this?
771
00:45:44,216 --> 00:45:45,642
The under the covers?
772
00:45:46,776 --> 00:45:48,412
Yeah.
773
00:45:48,447 --> 00:45:50,379
- Totally?
- Yeah.
774
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:55,214
She can't read your insides?
775
00:45:55,941 --> 00:45:59,544
There aren't any traces there
that say undercover stoolie?
776
00:46:00,282 --> 00:46:01,708
You really are imaginative.
777
00:46:04,743 --> 00:46:06,675
What have you got for me?
778
00:46:18,546 --> 00:46:20,181
Dr. Nasatir.
779
00:46:20,447 --> 00:46:21,873
Cosmetic surgery.
780
00:46:23,282 --> 00:46:25,478
Someone contacted me
at the Klinek show.
781
00:46:25,513 --> 00:46:27,148
(CLEARS THROAT)
782
00:46:27,183 --> 00:46:29,280
I heard it was a good show.
783
00:46:29,677 --> 00:46:31,478
Very disturbing. Multiple ears.
784
00:46:31,842 --> 00:46:33,478
Wow.
785
00:46:33,513 --> 00:46:35,148
Got to be good.
786
00:46:35,513 --> 00:46:37,148
It was okay.
787
00:46:37,183 --> 00:46:38,708
If you like escapist propaganda.
788
00:46:39,644 --> 00:46:41,280
This someone
789
00:46:41,315 --> 00:46:42,774
talked to me about
790
00:46:42,809 --> 00:46:44,445
my take on inner beauty.
791
00:46:45,578 --> 00:46:47,741
Said I really should consult
with a doctor.
792
00:46:48,908 --> 00:46:50,576
Dr. Nasatir.
793
00:46:51,875 --> 00:46:53,511
Inner beauty, huh?
794
00:46:53,546 --> 00:46:55,181
That's right up your alley.
795
00:46:55,710 --> 00:46:57,873
Guess that's why
she was talking to me.
796
00:46:59,546 --> 00:47:01,181
Okay, good.
797
00:47:02,611 --> 00:47:04,247
Follow it up.
798
00:47:04,611 --> 00:47:06,247
Find out what it means.
799
00:47:07,513 --> 00:47:09,148
What else?
800
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:13,840
Why is your body-crime unit
called New Vice?
801
00:47:14,611 --> 00:47:16,346
I don't get the vice part.
802
00:47:16,381 --> 00:47:19,181
Somebody in the Bureau
thought it was sexier than
803
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:21,148
Evolutionary Derangement.
804
00:47:22,315 --> 00:47:23,741
Sexier means easier funding.
805
00:47:24,908 --> 00:47:26,544
Anything else?
806
00:47:26,578 --> 00:47:28,214
Yeah.
807
00:47:28,249 --> 00:47:31,280
You have a woman named
Djuna Dotrice in the Metro Pen.
808
00:47:34,578 --> 00:47:36,214
We have?
809
00:47:37,546 --> 00:47:39,181
New Vice has her?
810
00:47:40,216 --> 00:47:42,840
Probably just Old Homicide.
She's in for murder.
811
00:47:43,809 --> 00:47:45,445
Murdered her own kid.
812
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:50,115
Yeah.
813
00:47:51,216 --> 00:47:52,642
Well?
814
00:47:53,809 --> 00:47:55,544
I need to talk to her.
815
00:47:57,677 --> 00:47:59,313
(METAL SCRAPING)
816
00:47:59,348 --> 00:48:00,774
(GENTLE SCORE)
817
00:48:04,710 --> 00:48:06,346
The Sark was originally
818
00:48:06,381 --> 00:48:08,544
a coroners' autopsy sarcophagus.
819
00:48:08,578 --> 00:48:11,313
When it went out of style
in the medical profession,
820
00:48:11,348 --> 00:48:12,873
it took on new life as
821
00:48:13,282 --> 00:48:14,708
artists' supplies.
822
00:48:15,315 --> 00:48:17,214
I've heard
that some of the Sarks
823
00:48:17,249 --> 00:48:18,884
that were modified
for performance surgery
824
00:48:18,908 --> 00:48:21,313
have been really brutally
hacked around,
825
00:48:21,348 --> 00:48:23,576
but this one was
converted by someone
826
00:48:23,611 --> 00:48:25,247
with a very delicate touch.
827
00:48:25,546 --> 00:48:27,181
It's in beautiful shape.
828
00:48:27,710 --> 00:48:29,346
(WHIRRING)
829
00:48:29,381 --> 00:48:30,807
(CLICKING)
830
00:48:35,809 --> 00:48:37,445
Where's your partner?
831
00:48:37,809 --> 00:48:40,379
Saul likes me
to do the techno dog work.
832
00:48:40,414 --> 00:48:42,346
Keeps me in touch with my roots.
833
00:48:44,578 --> 00:48:46,214
What happened to him?
834
00:48:46,842 --> 00:48:48,478
The body-growth thing.
835
00:48:49,249 --> 00:48:51,181
Is there a name for it?
836
00:48:51,842 --> 00:48:54,379
Accelerated Evolution Syndrome.
837
00:48:55,875 --> 00:48:57,873
Your body gets very inventive
838
00:48:57,908 --> 00:49:00,478
and throws a lot
of new stuff at you.
839
00:49:01,249 --> 00:49:02,675
I guess it wants to see
what sticks
840
00:49:02,710 --> 00:49:04,280
for the next generation.
841
00:49:04,315 --> 00:49:06,181
Yeah, but, uh...
842
00:49:06,216 --> 00:49:08,445
Tenser's not letting
anything stick, is he?
843
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:10,181
I mean...
844
00:49:10,216 --> 00:49:12,840
not if he's
getting rid of it all.
845
00:49:12,875 --> 00:49:14,511
The new, improved body parts?
846
00:49:15,809 --> 00:49:17,445
It's pathological.
847
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:18,906
It's not healthy.
848
00:49:18,941 --> 00:49:20,675
It's a breakdown of the system.
849
00:49:21,414 --> 00:49:24,214
An organism needs organisation.
850
00:49:24,249 --> 00:49:25,840
Otherwise, it's just
designer cancer.
851
00:49:27,908 --> 00:49:29,544
Hey, Caprice.
852
00:49:30,611 --> 00:49:32,247
Check us out!
853
00:49:32,611 --> 00:49:34,247
(LAUGHS)
854
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:37,148
Whaddya think?
855
00:49:37,183 --> 00:49:39,576
Do we got a future
in performance here?
856
00:49:39,611 --> 00:49:41,379
(LAUGHING)
857
00:49:41,414 --> 00:49:42,840
Definitely.
858
00:49:43,348 --> 00:49:44,774
(MODERATE SCORE)
859
00:49:45,743 --> 00:49:47,379
(SCORE MODULATES DARKER)
860
00:49:47,414 --> 00:49:48,840
(COUGHING)
861
00:49:57,216 --> 00:49:58,642
(COUGHING CONTINUES)
862
00:50:03,578 --> 00:50:05,214
(GROANS)
863
00:50:25,447 --> 00:50:26,873
Saul Tenser.
864
00:50:28,710 --> 00:50:30,511
Come on in.
865
00:50:30,546 --> 00:50:32,181
(CLEARING THROAT)
866
00:50:37,677 --> 00:50:39,379
This
867
00:50:39,414 --> 00:50:40,840
is very exciting.
868
00:50:40,875 --> 00:50:42,478
Is it?
869
00:50:42,513 --> 00:50:44,148
Seeing you here,
870
00:50:44,183 --> 00:50:46,346
is like a lightning bolt
from the blue.
871
00:50:46,381 --> 00:50:48,873
It strikes you very hard
and very convincingly.
872
00:50:49,842 --> 00:50:51,478
Let me take your coat.
873
00:50:52,216 --> 00:50:54,379
Uh, I prefer to keep it on.
874
00:50:55,743 --> 00:50:57,379
I get cold.
875
00:50:57,842 --> 00:51:00,280
If you don't mind staining.
876
00:51:00,315 --> 00:51:03,115
Please, just hop up on there
and expose your abdomen.
877
00:51:08,611 --> 00:51:10,609
(CLICKING; DYNAMO SPINS UP)
878
00:51:10,644 --> 00:51:12,280
(CLEARS THROAT)
879
00:51:14,414 --> 00:51:16,346
Tell me about
the lightning bolt.
880
00:51:16,743 --> 00:51:19,708
Saul Tenser
and the Inner Beauties.
881
00:51:20,875 --> 00:51:23,511
It's a marriage made in heaven.
882
00:51:24,546 --> 00:51:26,412
Inner Beauties.
883
00:51:26,447 --> 00:51:27,873
(EXCITED BREATHING)
884
00:51:31,842 --> 00:51:33,478
I propose
885
00:51:33,776 --> 00:51:35,511
to install the rip-lock
886
00:51:35,546 --> 00:51:37,181
here.
887
00:51:37,216 --> 00:51:39,280
This will give you
maximum access.
888
00:51:40,249 --> 00:51:41,675
(CLEARING THROAT)
889
00:51:45,282 --> 00:51:46,708
Access to what?
890
00:51:47,414 --> 00:51:50,609
I believe I'm here
to discuss my political problem.
891
00:51:51,743 --> 00:51:53,675
I wasn't aware you had one.
892
00:51:53,710 --> 00:51:55,346
I wasn't either,
893
00:51:55,611 --> 00:51:58,247
but Adrienne Berceau
seems to think I do.
894
00:51:58,282 --> 00:52:00,181
Oh, Adrienne.
895
00:52:00,216 --> 00:52:01,642
She's so dramatic.
896
00:52:02,216 --> 00:52:03,642
Listen...
897
00:52:03,677 --> 00:52:05,873
Me, I'm just a mechanic.
898
00:52:06,546 --> 00:52:08,840
I install doors and windows
into the future.
899
00:52:09,578 --> 00:52:11,214
Politics will come soon,
900
00:52:11,447 --> 00:52:13,148
when you're registered.
901
00:52:13,611 --> 00:52:15,247
Registered?
902
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:18,115
For what?
903
00:52:18,546 --> 00:52:20,181
He doesn't even know.
904
00:52:21,414 --> 00:52:22,840
For the Inner Beauty Pageant.
905
00:52:23,743 --> 00:52:25,273
I'm sure you'll be a contender.
906
00:52:29,348 --> 00:52:30,774
(TENSER COUGHING)
907
00:52:38,381 --> 00:52:40,313
- Hi.
- Hi.
908
00:52:40,677 --> 00:52:42,412
How's the Sark coming along?
909
00:52:42,447 --> 00:52:45,148
Our LifeFormWare friends
are very...
910
00:52:45,644 --> 00:52:47,280
(CHUCKLES)
911
00:52:47,315 --> 00:52:48,741
How can I put it?
912
00:52:49,875 --> 00:52:51,675
Very playful.
913
00:52:52,249 --> 00:52:53,675
Huh.
914
00:52:56,381 --> 00:52:57,807
Is that a good thing?
915
00:52:59,513 --> 00:53:02,313
They love it to death,
that piece of machinery.
916
00:53:02,941 --> 00:53:04,576
They literally salivate on it.
917
00:53:07,249 --> 00:53:08,675
They won't hurt it.
918
00:53:10,908 --> 00:53:12,544
Huh.
919
00:53:20,447 --> 00:53:21,873
Wow.
920
00:53:22,644 --> 00:53:24,313
And what's this?
921
00:53:24,348 --> 00:53:25,774
Cut yourself shaving?
922
00:53:25,809 --> 00:53:27,544
(TENSER CHUCKLES)
923
00:53:27,578 --> 00:53:29,214
(COUGHS)
924
00:53:29,249 --> 00:53:31,478
I seem to be a contestant
925
00:53:31,513 --> 00:53:33,412
in the Inner Beauty Pageant.
926
00:53:33,447 --> 00:53:35,214
It's very hush-hush.
927
00:53:35,249 --> 00:53:36,675
Might not be quite legal.
928
00:53:37,414 --> 00:53:38,840
The things you drag home.
929
00:53:38,875 --> 00:53:40,511
Hm.
930
00:53:40,546 --> 00:53:42,412
I'm entering in the category
931
00:53:42,447 --> 00:53:45,774
of Best Original Organ
With No Known Function.
932
00:53:48,315 --> 00:53:52,280
This is like a raincoat
for internal organ flashers.
933
00:53:52,315 --> 00:53:54,148
(CHUCKLES)
934
00:53:54,183 --> 00:53:55,609
Wow.
935
00:53:55,644 --> 00:53:57,247
A new world opens up.
936
00:53:57,282 --> 00:53:58,774
Hm.
937
00:53:59,513 --> 00:54:01,148
Wait a minute.
938
00:54:01,183 --> 00:54:02,675
Have we just been made, um...
939
00:54:02,710 --> 00:54:04,346
obsolete?
940
00:54:04,381 --> 00:54:06,511
No, of course not.
941
00:54:06,546 --> 00:54:08,346
It's just a functional thing.
942
00:54:08,381 --> 00:54:09,807
(SNIFFLES)
943
00:54:09,842 --> 00:54:11,478
It's a zippered fly,
944
00:54:11,513 --> 00:54:13,247
it's not art, It's not sensual.
945
00:54:15,381 --> 00:54:16,807
Besides,
946
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:19,576
remember what
our Registry friend said:
947
00:54:20,513 --> 00:54:22,544
sex is surgery.
948
00:54:23,776 --> 00:54:25,642
A zipper can't replace our Sark.
949
00:54:27,414 --> 00:54:29,148
I think she said, uh...
950
00:54:29,743 --> 00:54:31,379
"Surgery is the new sex."
951
00:54:38,842 --> 00:54:40,478
Besides,
952
00:54:45,809 --> 00:54:47,445
- zippers...
- (ZIPPING)
953
00:54:48,183 --> 00:54:50,148
- (GENTLE SCORE)
- have their own
954
00:54:50,183 --> 00:54:51,609
sex appeal.
955
00:54:52,776 --> 00:54:54,412
(TENSER MOANS)
956
00:54:56,414 --> 00:54:57,840
(GASPS)
957
00:54:58,513 --> 00:55:00,148
(SQUELCHING)
958
00:55:01,908 --> 00:55:03,544
- (CAPRICE MOANS)
- (TENSER SIGHS)
959
00:55:06,710 --> 00:55:08,346
Careful...
960
00:55:08,611 --> 00:55:10,247
don't spill.
961
00:55:12,776 --> 00:55:14,412
(GROANING)
962
00:55:26,282 --> 00:55:27,708
(SCORE FADES OUT)
963
00:55:27,743 --> 00:55:29,379
(FLIES BUZZING)
964
00:55:30,513 --> 00:55:32,511
He ate a plastic
wastepaper basket.
965
00:55:32,546 --> 00:55:34,478
What would you do?
966
00:55:35,513 --> 00:55:37,148
I wouldn't kill him.
967
00:55:37,611 --> 00:55:39,346
A little kid, my own son.
968
00:55:39,381 --> 00:55:41,412
But he wouldn't be your own son.
969
00:55:41,447 --> 00:55:43,379
He wouldn't even be
a little kid.
970
00:55:44,183 --> 00:55:45,609
What would he be?
971
00:55:45,644 --> 00:55:47,280
A creature.
972
00:55:47,875 --> 00:55:49,511
A thing.
973
00:55:49,776 --> 00:55:52,148
A thing my husband invented
to torment me.
974
00:55:52,183 --> 00:55:55,478
A thing that can eat
a plastic wastepaper basket.
975
00:55:55,513 --> 00:55:57,247
Eat it and enjoy it.
976
00:55:57,282 --> 00:55:59,642
And eat nothing but plastic
and weird synthetic stuff.
977
00:56:02,908 --> 00:56:04,544
(LAUGHS)
978
00:56:04,578 --> 00:56:07,313
He would take that watch
and he'd have it for lunch.
979
00:56:07,348 --> 00:56:08,708
(LAUGHS)
980
00:56:08,743 --> 00:56:10,609
He could digest plastic?
981
00:56:10,644 --> 00:56:12,247
He had this
982
00:56:12,282 --> 00:56:13,609
weird,
983
00:56:13,644 --> 00:56:15,412
thick white drool
984
00:56:15,447 --> 00:56:18,214
that he'd sometimes
slurp over everything.
985
00:56:18,249 --> 00:56:20,247
It was like acid.
986
00:56:20,677 --> 00:56:22,708
It'd dissolve
any kind of plasticky stuff.
987
00:56:22,743 --> 00:56:25,379
It would sting
if you got it on your skin.
988
00:56:25,414 --> 00:56:27,280
Didn't bother him, though.
989
00:56:27,315 --> 00:56:28,741
That lizard.
990
00:56:29,249 --> 00:56:30,675
(CLEARS THROAT)
991
00:56:30,710 --> 00:56:33,148
Your husband is Lang Dotrice.
992
00:56:33,183 --> 00:56:34,576
Was.
993
00:56:34,611 --> 00:56:37,214
Was my husband.
I've disowned him - fuck him.
994
00:56:37,249 --> 00:56:38,873
He invented your son?
995
00:56:40,315 --> 00:56:41,741
Yeah.
996
00:56:41,776 --> 00:56:43,511
That's how I think of it.
997
00:56:43,546 --> 00:56:45,609
And here's another thing
I think of:
998
00:56:45,644 --> 00:56:47,840
the thought of that slimy worm
999
00:56:47,875 --> 00:56:50,115
growing in me
still makes me sick.
1000
00:56:51,513 --> 00:56:53,148
The police tell me
1001
00:56:53,183 --> 00:56:54,708
they haven't found
your son, Brecken.
1002
00:56:54,743 --> 00:56:56,379
I get the feeling
1003
00:56:56,414 --> 00:56:58,346
they don't think
you really killed him.
1004
00:56:59,414 --> 00:57:00,840
I confess
1005
00:57:01,381 --> 00:57:02,807
they don't believe me.
1006
00:57:03,710 --> 00:57:05,445
The perfect crime.
1007
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:07,115
(GROANS)
1008
00:57:07,546 --> 00:57:09,181
You confessed?
1009
00:57:09,216 --> 00:57:10,576
Yeah.
1010
00:57:10,611 --> 00:57:12,346
Why?
1011
00:57:13,348 --> 00:57:14,774
I'm guilty.
1012
00:57:21,447 --> 00:57:22,873
Where's the body?
1013
00:57:22,908 --> 00:57:25,412
Lang has it
unless he's thrown it away.
1014
00:57:25,447 --> 00:57:26,873
How'd he get it?
1015
00:57:29,710 --> 00:57:31,346
I left it for him.
1016
00:57:32,183 --> 00:57:33,609
My little divorce present.
1017
00:57:37,447 --> 00:57:39,807
What is Lang
going to do with the body?
1018
00:57:39,842 --> 00:57:42,280
Maybe him and his cannibal
friends are going to eat it.
1019
00:57:42,315 --> 00:57:44,379
Who the fuck knows?
Who the fuck cares?
1020
00:57:44,414 --> 00:57:46,214
His friends are cannibals?
1021
00:57:46,249 --> 00:57:47,675
Um-hm.
1022
00:57:48,941 --> 00:57:50,576
If you're a Barbie Doll,
1023
00:57:51,216 --> 00:57:52,642
then they're cannibals.
1024
00:57:53,578 --> 00:57:55,544
If the police
found Brecken's body
1025
00:57:55,578 --> 00:57:57,214
and did an autopsy,
1026
00:57:58,381 --> 00:58:00,544
what do you think
they'd find inside it?
1027
00:58:03,546 --> 00:58:05,181
Outer space.
1028
00:58:07,216 --> 00:58:08,642
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)
1029
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:13,115
(CICADAS CHIRRING)
1030
00:58:21,611 --> 00:58:23,247
(BANGING ON METAL DOOR)
1031
00:58:23,513 --> 00:58:25,346
(DOOR MECHANISM CLACKING,
SLIDING OPEN)
1032
00:58:26,875 --> 00:58:28,511
- Tarr.
- Lang.
1033
00:58:28,546 --> 00:58:30,181
Everybody's here.
1034
00:58:30,677 --> 00:58:32,313
Good.
1035
00:58:35,776 --> 00:58:37,412
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
1036
00:58:38,875 --> 00:58:41,478
Our supply lines
are up and running again,
1037
00:58:41,513 --> 00:58:43,346
so we're in very good shape.
1038
00:58:43,381 --> 00:58:45,313
Production will soon
be back to maximum.
1039
00:58:51,743 --> 00:58:53,313
- (THUD)
- (BUZZER)
1040
00:58:53,348 --> 00:58:54,741
(GEARS RATCHETING)
1041
00:58:54,776 --> 00:58:56,379
(PLASTIC CRINKLES)
1042
00:58:56,414 --> 00:58:58,313
Tarr, if we have to
move the commune,
1043
00:58:58,348 --> 00:59:01,247
I mean, the whole operation,
the assembly line, everything...
1044
00:59:01,282 --> 00:59:02,609
Sit.
1045
00:59:02,644 --> 00:59:04,247
How quickly can it be?
1046
00:59:04,282 --> 00:59:05,708
You're expecting problems?
1047
00:59:05,743 --> 00:59:07,379
(LAUGHS)
1048
00:59:07,677 --> 00:59:09,840
I'm going ahead
with the Brecken autopsy.
1049
00:59:13,249 --> 00:59:16,148
Finally, what we're doing
is going to be very public
1050
00:59:16,183 --> 00:59:17,609
and it's going to resonate.
1051
00:59:18,480 --> 00:59:20,115
(DRAMATIC SCORE)
1052
00:59:42,348 --> 00:59:43,774
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
1053
01:00:14,249 --> 01:00:15,675
(RASPING)
1054
01:00:21,809 --> 01:00:23,445
(HEAVY BREATHING)
1055
01:00:23,809 --> 01:00:25,445
Oh...
1056
01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:28,906
(SCORE FADES OUT)
1057
01:00:28,941 --> 01:00:30,576
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
1058
01:00:30,611 --> 01:00:32,247
(WOMAN LAUGHING)
1059
01:00:32,282 --> 01:00:33,708
(GLASSWARE CLINKING)
1060
01:00:33,743 --> 01:00:35,379
Oh.
1061
01:00:35,414 --> 01:00:37,148
Where's Mr. Tenser?
1062
01:00:38,710 --> 01:00:40,544
- He's doing some research.
- Ah.
1063
01:00:41,249 --> 01:00:42,840
Where's your friend, Timlin?
1064
01:00:42,875 --> 01:00:45,675
Oh, she was, uh, intimidated.
1065
01:00:45,710 --> 01:00:47,346
By whom?
1066
01:00:47,381 --> 01:00:49,148
Well, we've been
1067
01:00:49,183 --> 01:00:50,708
forbidden to mingle.
1068
01:00:50,743 --> 01:00:52,675
It's now part of
the job description.
1069
01:00:53,776 --> 01:00:57,511
I'm risking my career
just being here,
1070
01:00:57,546 --> 01:00:59,181
but, uh...
1071
01:00:59,677 --> 01:01:01,313
I can't stay away.
1072
01:01:01,743 --> 01:01:03,379
I've got the fever.
1073
01:01:04,644 --> 01:01:06,280
Forgive me.
1074
01:01:06,315 --> 01:01:08,675
I've got to talk to her
before she goes.
1075
01:01:15,578 --> 01:01:17,214
Odile.
1076
01:01:19,282 --> 01:01:20,708
Caprice.
1077
01:01:21,908 --> 01:01:24,807
Oh, you have no idea
how hard it's been for me
1078
01:01:24,842 --> 01:01:27,511
to find plastic surgeons
who understand
1079
01:01:27,546 --> 01:01:30,346
that I do not wish
to be made more beautiful.
1080
01:01:30,809 --> 01:01:32,708
Surgeons tend to be
very focussed
1081
01:01:32,743 --> 01:01:34,379
and unimaginative.
1082
01:01:35,183 --> 01:01:36,609
It's considered a strength.
1083
01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:40,115
I was a surgeon myself.
1084
01:01:40,710 --> 01:01:42,346
Not cosmetic surgery, though.
1085
01:01:43,216 --> 01:01:44,642
- (SIGHS)
- Trauma.
1086
01:01:46,710 --> 01:01:48,346
Trauma.
1087
01:01:48,842 --> 01:01:50,478
But that's very um...
1088
01:01:50,513 --> 01:01:52,148
provocative.
1089
01:01:52,710 --> 01:01:54,346
I enjoy trauma.
1090
01:01:55,447 --> 01:01:57,576
What I do to myself
is very traumatic.
1091
01:01:58,611 --> 01:02:00,247
Is it?
1092
01:02:00,710 --> 01:02:02,708
You seem so peaceful, so...
1093
01:02:03,414 --> 01:02:05,873
beatific while your surgery's
going on.
1094
01:02:07,710 --> 01:02:09,346
Watching you suddenly...
1095
01:02:09,776 --> 01:02:12,576
filled me with the desire
to cut my face open.
1096
01:02:13,644 --> 01:02:15,280
(SIGH)
1097
01:02:15,315 --> 01:02:16,840
It's a feeling that shocked me.
1098
01:02:19,710 --> 01:02:21,445
A desire to be open
1099
01:02:22,282 --> 01:02:24,412
is often the beginning
of something exciting...
1100
01:02:24,447 --> 01:02:25,873
(CAPRICE BREATHES DEEPLY)
1101
01:02:25,908 --> 01:02:27,544
...new.
1102
01:02:27,578 --> 01:02:29,214
(EXHALES)
1103
01:02:30,908 --> 01:02:33,576
Perhaps you would
like to join me and the troupe
1104
01:02:33,611 --> 01:02:35,247
later this evening,
1105
01:02:35,908 --> 01:02:37,544
at the hotel?
1106
01:02:40,546 --> 01:02:42,181
(CLEARS THROAT)
1107
01:02:42,216 --> 01:02:44,181
A desire to be open?
1108
01:02:46,381 --> 01:02:47,807
Metaphorically.
1109
01:02:47,842 --> 01:02:49,511
Emotionally.
1110
01:02:49,546 --> 01:02:51,181
Artistically.
1111
01:03:04,941 --> 01:03:07,642
You want to take over
the Brecken show.
1112
01:03:07,677 --> 01:03:09,741
I want to perform the autopsy.
1113
01:03:09,776 --> 01:03:11,412
I want to perform.
1114
01:03:15,578 --> 01:03:17,214
(TENSER CLEARS THROAT)
1115
01:03:18,809 --> 01:03:20,445
Well, this is new.
1116
01:03:21,809 --> 01:03:23,445
Yes, it is.
1117
01:03:24,348 --> 01:03:25,774
(SIGHS)
1118
01:03:29,282 --> 01:03:30,708
Maybe...
1119
01:03:31,611 --> 01:03:33,247
you were too shy before.
1120
01:03:35,381 --> 01:03:37,115
I'm not too shy now.
1121
01:03:41,809 --> 01:03:43,840
Will you have something new
for the show?
1122
01:03:43,875 --> 01:03:46,741
We could definitely do work
in a Tenser extraction.
1123
01:03:48,216 --> 01:03:49,642
Double Autopsy.
1124
01:03:49,677 --> 01:03:51,313
Hm.
1125
01:03:51,348 --> 01:03:53,214
I do have something cooking.
1126
01:03:54,282 --> 01:03:55,708
(SIGHS)
1127
01:03:55,743 --> 01:03:57,379
Maybe a few things.
1128
01:03:58,875 --> 01:04:01,774
But I'm happy to let them
stay inside for now.
1129
01:04:01,809 --> 01:04:03,642
That might not be healthy.
1130
01:04:06,216 --> 01:04:08,313
We can extract in private,
1131
01:04:08,348 --> 01:04:10,313
if it's a problem.
1132
01:04:10,908 --> 01:04:12,642
Doesn't have to be
a performance.
1133
01:04:13,414 --> 01:04:15,346
Don't let it go too long.
1134
01:04:19,908 --> 01:04:21,544
(COUGHS; CLEARS THROAT)
1135
01:04:22,513 --> 01:04:24,148
(CHAIR CREAKS)
1136
01:04:24,710 --> 01:04:26,346
(SIGHS)
1137
01:04:27,809 --> 01:04:29,445
How was Odile's show?
1138
01:04:31,611 --> 01:04:33,247
It was...
1139
01:04:33,743 --> 01:04:35,379
- Brilliant.
- (CHUCKLES THROUGH NOSE)
1140
01:04:36,315 --> 01:04:37,873
She's exhilarating.
1141
01:04:37,908 --> 01:04:39,544
Yeah.
1142
01:04:39,941 --> 01:04:41,576
She says hello.
1143
01:04:43,842 --> 01:04:45,642
Hello.
1144
01:04:46,809 --> 01:04:49,181
I want to do more than perform.
1145
01:04:50,578 --> 01:04:52,214
I want to construct.
1146
01:04:53,282 --> 01:04:55,313
I want to construct
the Brecken show.
1147
01:04:55,348 --> 01:04:57,379
It already has
an innate structure.
1148
01:04:57,414 --> 01:04:58,840
(CLEARS THROAT)
1149
01:04:58,875 --> 01:05:00,478
A murdered boy.
1150
01:05:00,513 --> 01:05:02,148
A very strange boy.
1151
01:05:02,677 --> 01:05:04,346
A public autopsy, some...
1152
01:05:04,381 --> 01:05:05,807
surprises.
1153
01:05:05,842 --> 01:05:07,774
I want to work with it.
1154
01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:10,148
It's juicy with meaning.
1155
01:05:16,183 --> 01:05:17,873
(WIPPET INHALES, EXHALES)
1156
01:05:17,908 --> 01:05:19,774
Saul Tenser.
1157
01:05:20,381 --> 01:05:21,840
(CHUCKLES)
1158
01:05:22,578 --> 01:05:24,214
Well, then,
1159
01:05:24,249 --> 01:05:25,675
come on in.
1160
01:05:25,710 --> 01:05:27,346
Hm.
1161
01:05:29,710 --> 01:05:31,346
(DOOR LATCH ENGAGES)
1162
01:05:32,941 --> 01:05:34,576
Just...
1163
01:05:36,546 --> 01:05:38,181
(TENSER CLEARS HIS THROAT)
1164
01:05:46,842 --> 01:05:48,478
What's up?
1165
01:05:49,216 --> 01:05:50,642
Oh, well...
1166
01:05:51,183 --> 01:05:55,576
I just want your advice
as a neo-organ generator.
1167
01:05:55,941 --> 01:05:57,642
I...
1168
01:05:57,677 --> 01:05:59,313
- just...
- (LAUGHS)
1169
01:05:59,842 --> 01:06:01,478
Uh...
1170
01:06:01,710 --> 01:06:05,148
actually, I wanted
to show you our safe room.
1171
01:06:05,183 --> 01:06:06,609
Can I?
1172
01:06:08,875 --> 01:06:10,511
(TENSER CLEARS HIS THROAT)
1173
01:06:10,546 --> 01:06:12,181
Yes...
1174
01:06:12,216 --> 01:06:16,346
So, this is where
we archive our more
1175
01:06:16,381 --> 01:06:18,741
provocative material in here.
1176
01:06:19,710 --> 01:06:21,609
I thought
it was all provocative.
1177
01:06:21,644 --> 01:06:23,280
(WIPPET SCOFFS)
1178
01:06:23,315 --> 01:06:24,741
You,
1179
01:06:24,776 --> 01:06:26,708
- you provoke us.
- (LAUGHS)
1180
01:06:27,216 --> 01:06:28,708
- Uh...
- (TENSER CLEARS THROAT)
1181
01:06:28,743 --> 01:06:31,280
You, you provoke me.
1182
01:06:32,282 --> 01:06:33,708
I'm...
1183
01:06:33,743 --> 01:06:36,214
I'm just so glad
you're with us, you know.
1184
01:06:36,249 --> 01:06:38,280
It makes such emotional sense.
1185
01:06:39,875 --> 01:06:41,511
Who's us?
1186
01:06:43,216 --> 01:06:44,675
It's me, I'm...
1187
01:06:44,710 --> 01:06:46,346
I'm the one.
1188
01:06:46,381 --> 01:06:49,708
I am the Registrar
for the Inner Beauty Pageant.
1189
01:06:49,743 --> 01:06:51,675
- (LAUGHS)
- Sh, don't tell.
1190
01:06:51,710 --> 01:06:53,346
Registration
1191
01:06:53,381 --> 01:06:55,313
seems to be your strong suit.
1192
01:06:56,480 --> 01:06:57,906
I-I think you have
1193
01:06:57,941 --> 01:07:00,609
a very good chance
of winning your category.
1194
01:07:00,644 --> 01:07:04,181
In fact, if I were you,
I'd go for Best in Show.
1195
01:07:04,216 --> 01:07:06,576
I'm not sure I'll have
anything to show.
1196
01:07:11,414 --> 01:07:13,346
Might have to fake it.
1197
01:07:16,249 --> 01:07:17,675
Speaking of faking it,
1198
01:07:18,513 --> 01:07:21,609
I said it makes emotional sense
for you to be with
1199
01:07:21,644 --> 01:07:23,906
the Inner Beauties,
and it does, but...
1200
01:07:23,941 --> 01:07:25,576
you know,
1201
01:07:25,611 --> 01:07:27,346
doesn't make logical sense.
1202
01:07:29,216 --> 01:07:30,708
- No?
- No.
1203
01:07:30,743 --> 01:07:33,247
Because the Inner Beauty
Pageant is all about acceptance.
1204
01:07:33,743 --> 01:07:37,214
It's about acknowledgment,
aesthetic empowerment,
1205
01:07:37,249 --> 01:07:39,214
And you, Saul Tenser,
1206
01:07:39,249 --> 01:07:42,379
you're all about anger,
and rebellion, and...
1207
01:07:42,710 --> 01:07:44,346
rejection by scalpel.
1208
01:07:44,611 --> 01:07:46,247
(TENSER GROANS)
1209
01:07:48,908 --> 01:07:50,544
(LONG SIGH)
1210
01:07:50,875 --> 01:07:53,511
This has been a mistake,
hasn't it?
1211
01:07:53,546 --> 01:07:54,873
No.
1212
01:07:54,908 --> 01:07:57,247
No, you're right.
I'd be a fish out of water
1213
01:07:57,282 --> 01:07:58,708
at your little secret event.
1214
01:07:59,381 --> 01:08:01,544
But, no, no, no.
1215
01:08:01,578 --> 01:08:04,478
We want you,
we need you, we-we...
1216
01:08:04,513 --> 01:08:06,247
It'll all fall apart without you!
1217
01:08:08,809 --> 01:08:11,412
What if I won
for best original organ
1218
01:08:11,447 --> 01:08:14,675
and then I ripped it out
in public at my next show?
1219
01:08:15,414 --> 01:08:17,181
Wouldn't that
humiliate your group?
1220
01:08:17,216 --> 01:08:18,544
(MUMBLES)
1221
01:08:18,578 --> 01:08:21,445
It's star power.
We'll-we'll-we'll cover it.
1222
01:08:21,480 --> 01:08:22,906
We'll, we'll settle.
1223
01:08:22,941 --> 01:08:24,609
We'll give you whatever you want
1224
01:08:24,644 --> 01:08:28,148
and maybe, just maybe,
you'll begin to see it our way.
1225
01:08:28,842 --> 01:08:30,478
(LAUGHS)
1226
01:08:30,513 --> 01:08:32,445
- Uh...
- (CLEARS THROAT)
1227
01:08:32,480 --> 01:08:34,181
- So...
- (CLEARS THROAT)
1228
01:08:34,216 --> 01:08:35,642
So, okay...
1229
01:08:36,611 --> 01:08:38,478
we rewind.
1230
01:08:41,710 --> 01:08:43,741
- I, uh...
- (CLEARS THROAT)
1231
01:08:43,776 --> 01:08:47,544
I'm here to register
for the Inner Beauty Pageant.
1232
01:08:53,644 --> 01:08:55,609
- Mr. Tenser?
- Ah! Oh.
1233
01:08:55,644 --> 01:08:57,313
- Saul...
- It's you.
1234
01:08:57,513 --> 01:08:59,148
(CLEARS THROAT)
1235
01:08:59,183 --> 01:09:01,181
Could you come into my office?
1236
01:09:05,315 --> 01:09:06,741
(SHUTS DOOR)
1237
01:09:07,414 --> 01:09:08,840
(TIMLIN SIGHS)
1238
01:09:08,875 --> 01:09:10,807
You were just with Mr. Wippet.
1239
01:09:11,941 --> 01:09:13,576
I was.
1240
01:09:14,249 --> 01:09:15,774
I'm very worried about him.
1241
01:09:19,842 --> 01:09:22,544
He seemed to be in fine form.
1242
01:09:24,447 --> 01:09:27,478
Oh, no, it's a
very dangerous form to be in.
1243
01:09:27,513 --> 01:09:29,148
(TREMULOUS INHALE)
1244
01:09:30,183 --> 01:09:31,609
I...
1245
01:09:32,941 --> 01:09:34,576
I don't understand.
1246
01:09:36,842 --> 01:09:38,478
It's...
1247
01:09:38,513 --> 01:09:40,478
in our line of work,
very easy to be dazzled
1248
01:09:40,513 --> 01:09:42,511
by the glamour
of the performance world,
1249
01:09:44,578 --> 01:09:46,214
the charismatic people we meet,
1250
01:09:47,447 --> 01:09:48,873
like you.
1251
01:09:49,875 --> 01:09:51,511
TENSER: Mm.
1252
01:09:53,908 --> 01:09:55,544
I see.
1253
01:09:56,480 --> 01:09:58,115
Do you?
1254
01:09:59,414 --> 01:10:00,840
(CLEARS THROAT)
1255
01:10:01,578 --> 01:10:03,214
Maybe not. Tell me.
1256
01:10:03,249 --> 01:10:04,675
(CHUCKLES)
1257
01:10:05,447 --> 01:10:07,181
Well, this is our world.
1258
01:10:07,941 --> 01:10:09,576
This office, this building.
1259
01:10:11,282 --> 01:10:12,708
From the centre of it,
1260
01:10:12,908 --> 01:10:14,478
deep,
1261
01:10:14,513 --> 01:10:16,148
deep within it,
1262
01:10:16,480 --> 01:10:18,840
this beautiful white light
emanates outward.
1263
01:10:20,216 --> 01:10:21,642
That light is you,
1264
01:10:22,611 --> 01:10:24,247
what you create,
1265
01:10:25,216 --> 01:10:26,642
and those like you.
1266
01:10:28,809 --> 01:10:30,445
Mm...
1267
01:10:31,710 --> 01:10:33,445
It's hard-it's hard for us, drab
1268
01:10:33,776 --> 01:10:35,642
little bureaucratic insects
that we are,
1269
01:10:35,677 --> 01:10:38,247
not to be drawn into your
powerful gravitational field.
1270
01:10:39,381 --> 01:10:40,807
Hurtling towards you,
1271
01:10:41,546 --> 01:10:44,906
plunging into your black hole
that pulls all light into it.
1272
01:10:44,941 --> 01:10:46,576
(DEEP INHALE)
1273
01:10:47,381 --> 01:10:49,115
We want to follow that light,
1274
01:10:49,611 --> 01:10:51,247
fuse with that light.
1275
01:10:52,381 --> 01:10:53,807
Is...
1276
01:10:55,183 --> 01:10:57,642
Is Wippet doing some fusing,
1277
01:10:57,677 --> 01:10:59,412
- (CLEARS THROAT)
- do you think?
1278
01:11:01,282 --> 01:11:02,708
Oh...
1279
01:11:02,743 --> 01:11:05,544
He's-he is drawn to inner beauty.
1280
01:11:08,414 --> 01:11:11,544
Is he playing games
with subversive groups?
1281
01:11:11,578 --> 01:11:13,313
Is that-is that what you mean?
1282
01:11:15,480 --> 01:11:16,906
(INHALES)
1283
01:11:16,941 --> 01:11:18,576
I...
1284
01:11:19,480 --> 01:11:22,313
I am very,
very fond of him, but...
1285
01:11:22,348 --> 01:11:25,214
Yes, I think I might have to
actually turn him in.
1286
01:11:25,249 --> 01:11:27,412
No, don't-don't-don't do that.
1287
01:11:27,908 --> 01:11:29,708
- Uh...
- (ECHOEY CLATTERING IN HALLWAY)
1288
01:11:34,480 --> 01:11:36,478
How safe is this room?
1289
01:11:37,809 --> 01:11:39,445
Oh, it's...
1290
01:11:40,677 --> 01:11:42,313
It's totally safe.
1291
01:11:42,677 --> 01:11:44,412
You can be open with me.
1292
01:11:44,447 --> 01:11:45,873
Yeah, open.
1293
01:11:46,315 --> 01:11:47,741
Um...
1294
01:11:49,414 --> 01:11:51,708
Have you run across
a neo-organ...
1295
01:11:51,743 --> 01:11:54,379
or rather, a system
1296
01:11:54,414 --> 01:11:55,840
of neo-organs,
1297
01:11:55,875 --> 01:11:58,280
that had a digestive function?
1298
01:11:58,315 --> 01:12:01,346
A system that can digest
synthetics, plastics...
1299
01:12:02,809 --> 01:12:04,445
that sort of thing?
1300
01:12:04,480 --> 01:12:06,115
No.
1301
01:12:06,710 --> 01:12:09,115
No, but that sounds interesting.
1302
01:12:09,513 --> 01:12:12,774
We've only come across
single organ growths here,
1303
01:12:12,809 --> 01:12:14,445
like yours.
1304
01:12:15,875 --> 01:12:17,807
Of course, nobody knows
what would happen
1305
01:12:17,842 --> 01:12:19,774
if those growths
were allowed to accumulate.
1306
01:12:21,447 --> 01:12:23,181
Do you think they could ev...
1307
01:12:23,809 --> 01:12:25,445
Um, I almost
1308
01:12:25,480 --> 01:12:27,115
said evolve,
1309
01:12:27,381 --> 01:12:28,807
but I didn't. Hah.
1310
01:12:28,842 --> 01:12:30,478
Um...
1311
01:12:30,842 --> 01:12:33,214
Do you think they could
actually develop into...
1312
01:12:33,249 --> 01:12:34,741
a system of organs?
1313
01:12:35,842 --> 01:12:37,478
Like a...
1314
01:12:38,348 --> 01:12:40,115
circulatory system,
1315
01:12:42,282 --> 01:12:44,115
nervous system, um...
1316
01:12:44,611 --> 01:12:46,247
lymphatic...?
1317
01:12:46,908 --> 01:12:49,280
You know a lot
about human physiology.
1318
01:12:49,644 --> 01:12:51,280
Yeah.
1319
01:12:53,776 --> 01:12:55,642
- Hm.
- (CLEARS THROAT)
1320
01:12:55,875 --> 01:12:57,609
Do you think you would ever
1321
01:12:57,644 --> 01:12:59,478
let me be a part of your show?
1322
01:12:59,677 --> 01:13:01,313
Uh...
1323
01:13:02,381 --> 01:13:04,609
Because I would love to...
1324
01:13:05,809 --> 01:13:08,313
find myself
in that Sark module with...
1325
01:13:09,611 --> 01:13:11,280
you at the controls.
1326
01:13:11,941 --> 01:13:13,774
That would, that would
1327
01:13:13,809 --> 01:13:17,247
definitely fall into
the category of New Vice.
1328
01:13:18,348 --> 01:13:19,774
Mm...
1329
01:13:20,183 --> 01:13:22,379
Well, that is where I live.
1330
01:13:26,348 --> 01:13:27,774
(QUIET SCORE)
1331
01:13:46,183 --> 01:13:47,708
- (INHALES)
- Hm.
1332
01:14:03,644 --> 01:14:05,379
Ah.
1333
01:14:17,216 --> 01:14:18,642
(TIMLIN MOANING)
1334
01:14:21,842 --> 01:14:23,478
(SHARP EXHALE)
1335
01:14:25,644 --> 01:14:27,280
(TENSER MOANS)
1336
01:14:28,348 --> 01:14:29,774
- (TENSER MOANS)
- (TIMLIN SIGHS)
1337
01:14:30,480 --> 01:14:32,609
Oh... Uh...
1338
01:14:34,315 --> 01:14:35,741
(STACCATO CLEARING OF THROAT)
1339
01:14:38,480 --> 01:14:40,115
- I'm sorry.
- No.
1340
01:14:41,644 --> 01:14:44,214
I'm just not very good
at the old sex.
1341
01:14:46,447 --> 01:14:47,873
(WIND BLOWING)
1342
01:14:47,908 --> 01:14:49,544
(CRICKET CHIRPING)
1343
01:14:52,941 --> 01:14:54,576
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
1344
01:15:01,578 --> 01:15:03,576
Please, come in.
1345
01:15:05,447 --> 01:15:07,148
Sit, uh, anywhere you like.
1346
01:15:07,183 --> 01:15:08,609
(LAUGHS)
1347
01:15:09,677 --> 01:15:11,313
(TENSER GROANS QUIETLY)
1348
01:15:11,710 --> 01:15:13,346
(DOOR CREAKS; CLOSES)
1349
01:15:13,381 --> 01:15:14,741
This is Caprice.
1350
01:15:15,216 --> 01:15:16,642
She's my partner.
1351
01:15:16,677 --> 01:15:18,412
Yes, I've seen your work.
1352
01:15:19,315 --> 01:15:21,379
Beautiful. Outstanding stuff.
1353
01:15:21,414 --> 01:15:22,840
Thank you.
1354
01:15:22,875 --> 01:15:24,609
I spoke to your wife.
1355
01:15:24,941 --> 01:15:26,576
Your ex-wife.
1356
01:15:28,611 --> 01:15:30,247
Why'd you do that?
1357
01:15:30,941 --> 01:15:33,609
I wanted to know
what we were getting into.
1358
01:15:34,480 --> 01:15:36,181
Do you know now?
1359
01:15:37,348 --> 01:15:38,774
(TENSER EXHALES)
1360
01:15:41,578 --> 01:15:43,247
Not exactly.
1361
01:15:44,447 --> 01:15:46,181
- Okay.
- (CHUCKLES)
1362
01:15:46,447 --> 01:15:48,379
- Why don't we, uh,
- (SLAPS FREEZER TWICE)
1363
01:15:48,414 --> 01:15:49,840
start with this.
1364
01:15:49,875 --> 01:15:51,511
(FREEZER COMPRESSER DRONES)
1365
01:15:51,875 --> 01:15:53,511
(TENSER CLEARS HIS THROAT)
1366
01:15:55,348 --> 01:15:58,346
Don't you want to take a look
at your raw materials?
1367
01:16:00,183 --> 01:16:01,609
Please.
1368
01:16:01,644 --> 01:16:03,280
(TENSER CLEARS HIS THROAT)
1369
01:16:04,216 --> 01:16:05,642
(CAPRICE SIGHS)
1370
01:16:11,644 --> 01:16:13,280
(EXHALES)
1371
01:16:13,315 --> 01:16:15,247
I don't think we should do this.
1372
01:16:15,282 --> 01:16:16,708
Maybe you shouldn't.
1373
01:16:16,743 --> 01:16:18,379
(BANG)
1374
01:16:20,644 --> 01:16:22,807
But you obviously really want us to.
1375
01:16:24,447 --> 01:16:25,873
(SIGHS)
1376
01:16:25,908 --> 01:16:27,609
Why do you?
1377
01:16:30,809 --> 01:16:32,741
I need to make a statement.
1378
01:16:33,282 --> 01:16:34,708
A very public statement.
1379
01:16:35,414 --> 01:16:36,840
Hm.
1380
01:16:36,875 --> 01:16:38,511
Wouldn't a
1381
01:16:38,546 --> 01:16:41,247
formal police autopsy
make that statement?
1382
01:16:41,282 --> 01:16:42,708
(DOTRICE LAUGHS)
1383
01:16:43,282 --> 01:16:45,478
No, no, it would be covered up.
1384
01:16:45,513 --> 01:16:47,148
You'd never hear a thing.
1385
01:16:55,644 --> 01:16:57,280
(THUD)
1386
01:16:57,315 --> 01:16:58,741
(CAPRICE INHALES; EXHALES)
1387
01:16:58,776 --> 01:17:01,214
Performance art is all consensual.
1388
01:17:01,249 --> 01:17:02,675
(CAPRICE SIGHS)
1389
01:17:02,710 --> 01:17:04,412
This one would be different.
1390
01:17:04,447 --> 01:17:06,148
(TREMULOUS BREATH IN)
1391
01:17:06,183 --> 01:17:07,609
This would be different.
1392
01:17:07,644 --> 01:17:09,576
Yes, well,
you'll have my consent.
1393
01:17:10,644 --> 01:17:12,280
Brecken isn't talking.
1394
01:17:13,216 --> 01:17:15,313
I'm sure you realize
that Djuna doesn't care
1395
01:17:15,348 --> 01:17:17,214
what happens to her son's body.
1396
01:17:17,249 --> 01:17:19,840
I got the feeling
she was obsessed with his body.
1397
01:17:19,875 --> 01:17:21,511
(CLEARS HIS THROAT)
1398
01:17:21,546 --> 01:17:23,412
Especially his digestive system.
1399
01:17:23,447 --> 01:17:25,807
Ah. Well...
1400
01:17:27,677 --> 01:17:29,313
(PLASTIC WRAPPER CRINKLING)
1401
01:17:32,743 --> 01:17:34,379
Ever eaten one of these?
1402
01:17:37,447 --> 01:17:39,379
Never seen one of those before.
1403
01:17:39,611 --> 01:17:41,247
Go ahead. Please.
1404
01:17:41,941 --> 01:17:43,675
I think it'll be a revelation.
1405
01:17:47,414 --> 01:17:48,840
(SNIFFS)
1406
01:17:56,216 --> 01:17:57,807
I'm very fussy about my food.
1407
01:17:59,414 --> 01:18:01,346
Yeah, so am I.
1408
01:18:01,381 --> 01:18:02,807
So was Brecken.
1409
01:18:02,842 --> 01:18:04,478
Let me ask you something:
1410
01:18:04,513 --> 01:18:06,609
does the EatWare application
work for you?
1411
01:18:07,809 --> 01:18:09,807
I looked at one of those
Break Faster chairs
1412
01:18:09,842 --> 01:18:11,774
from LifeFormWare
in a showroom window once.
1413
01:18:11,809 --> 01:18:14,379
The way they adjust
every part of your body
1414
01:18:14,414 --> 01:18:16,708
to make chewing, swallowing
and digesting easy.
1415
01:18:17,644 --> 01:18:19,280
At one point in my life
1416
01:18:19,315 --> 01:18:21,247
I thought that might be
the answer.
1417
01:18:23,842 --> 01:18:25,544
To what question?
1418
01:18:25,908 --> 01:18:27,840
The eating problem that I have,
1419
01:18:28,546 --> 01:18:30,181
Brecken had...
1420
01:18:30,710 --> 01:18:32,346
and that you have.
1421
01:18:33,644 --> 01:18:35,280
Hm.
1422
01:18:35,315 --> 01:18:36,741
You think they're related?
1423
01:18:36,776 --> 01:18:39,642
You're a man who's fighting
what he really is.
1424
01:18:39,677 --> 01:18:41,313
Don't you see?
1425
01:18:41,348 --> 01:18:42,840
You should let your body
lead you to
1426
01:18:42,875 --> 01:18:44,807
where it wants to go instead of
1427
01:18:44,842 --> 01:18:47,148
hacking it to pieces
and displaying it
1428
01:18:47,183 --> 01:18:48,609
in some hidden museum
1429
01:18:48,644 --> 01:18:50,445
like the bones
of an extinct animal.
1430
01:18:50,480 --> 01:18:53,741
Saul would be dead now
if he listened to that advice.
1431
01:18:53,776 --> 01:18:56,148
His body wants to kill him.
1432
01:18:56,183 --> 01:18:58,741
What we're doing is
we're making art
1433
01:18:58,776 --> 01:19:00,412
out of anarchy.
1434
01:19:00,875 --> 01:19:03,379
We are creating meaning
out of emptiness.
1435
01:19:04,183 --> 01:19:05,609
Are you?
1436
01:19:06,480 --> 01:19:09,412
Has it ever occurred to you
that you might simply be
1437
01:19:09,447 --> 01:19:11,445
interfering in a
fantastic natural process
1438
01:19:11,480 --> 01:19:13,115
that you should surrender to?
1439
01:19:13,743 --> 01:19:15,379
(GROANS)
1440
01:19:15,414 --> 01:19:16,840
Never has.
1441
01:19:20,578 --> 01:19:22,214
Will you do
1442
01:19:22,743 --> 01:19:24,379
the Brecken show?
1443
01:19:26,941 --> 01:19:28,873
Should I do the Brecken show?
1444
01:19:30,546 --> 01:19:33,346
What does New Vice
want to get out of this?
1445
01:19:34,875 --> 01:19:36,807
You have a new best friend.
1446
01:19:38,677 --> 01:19:40,313
Who would that be?
1447
01:19:40,348 --> 01:19:41,774
Lang Dotrice.
1448
01:19:42,546 --> 01:19:44,181
We want him.
1449
01:19:44,611 --> 01:19:46,642
But we don't just want him.
1450
01:19:47,941 --> 01:19:50,148
We want his group of freaks.
1451
01:19:50,183 --> 01:19:51,609
All of them.
1452
01:19:51,644 --> 01:19:53,807
I don't know anything
about a group.
1453
01:19:54,908 --> 01:19:57,280
You will find out about the group.
1454
01:19:57,809 --> 01:19:59,576
He likes you.
1455
01:19:59,611 --> 01:20:01,247
He trusts you.
1456
01:20:01,809 --> 01:20:04,840
He trusts me to
cut up his dead son in public.
1457
01:20:05,710 --> 01:20:07,346
What'll that get us?
1458
01:20:07,381 --> 01:20:09,379
It could get you
to the next stage,
1459
01:20:09,414 --> 01:20:10,840
which is infiltration.
1460
01:20:11,875 --> 01:20:14,445
We want to know everything
there is to know about Dotrice
1461
01:20:14,480 --> 01:20:16,115
and his plastic-eating comrades.
1462
01:20:17,578 --> 01:20:19,214
Plastic-eating?
1463
01:20:20,842 --> 01:20:22,576
You don't get it yet?
1464
01:20:25,216 --> 01:20:26,642
You talking about those
1465
01:20:26,677 --> 01:20:28,313
purple candy bars?
1466
01:20:28,809 --> 01:20:30,445
(COPE LAUGHS)
1467
01:20:30,809 --> 01:20:32,741
Ever try eating one of those?
1468
01:20:33,875 --> 01:20:35,511
One of our agents did.
1469
01:20:35,842 --> 01:20:37,576
He's as dead as Brecken now.
1470
01:20:38,842 --> 01:20:40,478
Poisoned him?
1471
01:20:40,513 --> 01:20:42,346
They're synth bars.
1472
01:20:42,381 --> 01:20:44,445
Synthetic, man-made stuff.
1473
01:20:44,941 --> 01:20:46,511
Toxic.
1474
01:20:46,546 --> 01:20:48,478
A normal human
can't eat that stuff.
1475
01:20:49,776 --> 01:20:51,478
But those people,
1476
01:20:51,677 --> 01:20:53,313
- they just...
- (CRUNCHING)
1477
01:20:54,875 --> 01:20:57,313
they just munch away, no problem.
1478
01:20:59,513 --> 01:21:01,148
(STONE HITS METAL SIGN)
1479
01:21:03,414 --> 01:21:05,774
They're evolving away
from the human path, Saul.
1480
01:21:07,743 --> 01:21:09,609
It can't be allowed to continue.
1481
01:21:13,348 --> 01:21:14,774
(TENSER GRUMBLES)
1482
01:21:17,513 --> 01:21:19,148
(LOW RUMBLE)
1483
01:21:23,776 --> 01:21:25,412
(STACCATO TICKING)
1484
01:21:36,249 --> 01:21:37,675
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
1485
01:21:38,513 --> 01:21:40,148
(CRACKLING)
1486
01:21:40,480 --> 01:21:41,906
(NASAL EXHALE)
1487
01:21:41,941 --> 01:21:43,576
(MECHANICAL WHINE)
1488
01:21:46,875 --> 01:21:48,675
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)
1489
01:21:51,249 --> 01:21:52,675
Doctor Nasatir?
1490
01:21:52,710 --> 01:21:54,280
Yes?
1491
01:21:54,315 --> 01:21:55,840
Router and Berst of LifeFormWare.
1492
01:21:56,381 --> 01:21:57,807
Authorized technicians.
1493
01:21:59,644 --> 01:22:01,280
You called us,
1494
01:22:01,315 --> 01:22:02,741
we're here.
1495
01:22:03,842 --> 01:22:05,478
Did I call you?
1496
01:22:05,513 --> 01:22:07,675
A paradigm shift
with your Break Faster chair.
1497
01:22:08,941 --> 01:22:11,511
Yes, that's true,
but I'm just eating now.
1498
01:22:12,513 --> 01:22:14,148
Oh,
1499
01:22:14,183 --> 01:22:15,609
it's perfect timing.
1500
01:22:17,776 --> 01:22:19,412
(DISQUIETING SCORE)
1501
01:22:30,447 --> 01:22:31,873
(LOW THRUMMING)
1502
01:22:31,908 --> 01:22:33,544
(SQUELCHING)
1503
01:22:33,578 --> 01:22:35,214
(MECHANICAL STACCATOS)
1504
01:22:55,941 --> 01:22:57,576
We're moving everything out.
1505
01:22:57,611 --> 01:22:59,774
Mr. Tarr here,
he's taking care of everything.
1506
01:23:00,447 --> 01:23:03,675
I figure the Brecken show
is going to make us too hot
1507
01:23:03,710 --> 01:23:05,346
but this,
1508
01:23:07,546 --> 01:23:09,478
this is what all of us eat.
1509
01:23:10,513 --> 01:23:11,873
(TENSER CLEARS HIS THROAT)
1510
01:23:11,908 --> 01:23:14,346
All of us, is how many?
1511
01:23:14,381 --> 01:23:16,708
Well, our own little cell,
60, 70 souls
1512
01:23:16,743 --> 01:23:18,873
but around the world,
our network is vast.
1513
01:23:18,908 --> 01:23:20,544
And, really,
the number's unknowable.
1514
01:23:21,578 --> 01:23:24,478
And everybody's had
the same elaborate surgery?
1515
01:23:25,414 --> 01:23:27,214
Tarr.
1516
01:23:27,513 --> 01:23:29,708
Everyone around the world, yes.
1517
01:23:29,743 --> 01:23:32,544
The procedures were developed
over years of collaboration.
1518
01:23:33,216 --> 01:23:34,642
There are variations, of course.
1519
01:23:34,677 --> 01:23:36,313
Culturally unique versions.
1520
01:23:36,348 --> 01:23:38,379
And you did it because?
1521
01:23:38,414 --> 01:23:40,379
Because our bodies
were telling us
1522
01:23:40,414 --> 01:23:42,148
it was time to change, yes?
1523
01:23:42,546 --> 01:23:44,478
Time for human evolution
to sync up
1524
01:23:44,513 --> 01:23:46,148
with human technology.
1525
01:23:46,941 --> 01:23:49,741
We've got to start feeding on
our own industrial waste.
1526
01:23:49,776 --> 01:23:51,412
It's our destiny.
1527
01:23:51,447 --> 01:23:53,609
The end result
is you can't eat food.
1528
01:23:53,644 --> 01:23:55,379
Well, we eat modern food.
1529
01:23:55,644 --> 01:23:57,280
We eat plastic.
1530
01:23:57,315 --> 01:23:59,214
And that's what we like to call it.
1531
01:23:59,249 --> 01:24:00,708
And Brecken?
1532
01:24:02,249 --> 01:24:03,675
Brecken.
1533
01:24:05,578 --> 01:24:07,014
Brecken was the first-born.
1534
01:24:10,875 --> 01:24:13,247
The first to be born
with a plastic...
1535
01:24:13,677 --> 01:24:15,313
processing digestive system.
1536
01:24:17,348 --> 01:24:18,774
To be...
1537
01:24:19,282 --> 01:24:20,708
naturally unnatural.
1538
01:24:21,578 --> 01:24:23,675
She hated us. Djuna hated us.
1539
01:24:24,776 --> 01:24:26,511
She stole Brecken away from us.
1540
01:24:27,644 --> 01:24:31,214
She never really understood
what a gem her kid was.
1541
01:24:31,249 --> 01:24:32,675
She... she couldn't handle it.
1542
01:24:32,710 --> 01:24:34,544
He really must have been a gem,
1543
01:24:34,578 --> 01:24:36,906
because what you're saying
sounds insane to me.
1544
01:24:36,941 --> 01:24:38,576
Why?
1545
01:24:39,480 --> 01:24:41,873
Well, you're saying your surgery,
1546
01:24:41,908 --> 01:24:44,741
the surgery that
made you plastic eaters,
1547
01:24:47,710 --> 01:24:50,148
was somehow replicated
genetically in your son?
1548
01:24:50,578 --> 01:24:52,708
That surgically acquired
characteristics
1549
01:24:52,743 --> 01:24:54,379
(GRUNTS)
1550
01:24:54,414 --> 01:24:56,412
Became inheritable?
1551
01:25:00,908 --> 01:25:02,642
You cut off your little finger
1552
01:25:02,677 --> 01:25:04,247
(CLEARS THROAT)
1553
01:25:04,282 --> 01:25:06,445
And your kids are born
without little fingers?
1554
01:25:08,743 --> 01:25:10,478
Brecken was our miracle child.
1555
01:25:11,249 --> 01:25:13,412
He was everything
we all wanted to be.
1556
01:25:13,447 --> 01:25:15,148
That's all I can say.
1557
01:25:15,183 --> 01:25:16,807
Can't say
I understand the process.
1558
01:25:16,842 --> 01:25:19,478
But why a Brecken show?
1559
01:25:19,513 --> 01:25:22,544
Because I wanted to, someday,
present my son to the world.
1560
01:25:22,578 --> 01:25:24,214
I wanted to show the world
1561
01:25:24,249 --> 01:25:25,642
that the future
of humanity existed
1562
01:25:25,677 --> 01:25:27,313
and was good.
1563
01:25:27,348 --> 01:25:29,445
Was at peace and harmony
with the techno world
1564
01:25:29,480 --> 01:25:30,906
that we've created.
1565
01:25:30,941 --> 01:25:33,511
Now, all I can do
is present the reality
1566
01:25:33,546 --> 01:25:36,741
of his dead little body
as a promise of that future.
1567
01:25:37,908 --> 01:25:39,642
I don't know what we'll see.
1568
01:25:40,644 --> 01:25:42,379
But I know he'll be beautiful.
1569
01:25:43,480 --> 01:25:45,445
Sweet and real
1570
01:25:46,546 --> 01:25:48,181
and beautiful.
1571
01:25:48,611 --> 01:25:50,247
(CICADAS CHIRRING)
1572
01:25:50,282 --> 01:25:51,708
(GENTLE SCORE)
1573
01:25:52,578 --> 01:25:54,214
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
1574
01:25:54,677 --> 01:25:56,511
Sorry, I gotta...
1575
01:26:00,644 --> 01:26:02,576
I didn't expect you to be here.
1576
01:26:02,875 --> 01:26:05,675
- Hm.
- Couldn't keep away, huh?
1577
01:26:07,578 --> 01:26:09,214
Guess not.
1578
01:26:09,710 --> 01:26:11,346
Special event.
1579
01:26:11,381 --> 01:26:13,115
- Mm-hm.
- (LAUGHS)
1580
01:26:13,381 --> 01:26:14,807
Worth the risk.
1581
01:26:36,776 --> 01:26:39,576
We've all wanted to see
an autopsy, haven't we?
1582
01:26:39,611 --> 01:26:41,609
- (SCORE BECOME DRAMATIC)
- (MECHANICAL WHIRRING)
1583
01:26:41,644 --> 01:26:44,214
We've all felt
that the body was empty,
1584
01:26:44,908 --> 01:26:46,675
empty of meaning
1585
01:26:47,776 --> 01:26:49,511
and we've wanted to confirm that,
1586
01:26:50,677 --> 01:26:52,840
so that we could fill it
with meaning.
1587
01:26:52,875 --> 01:26:54,511
(BEEPING)
1588
01:26:56,381 --> 01:26:57,807
Autopsia means
1589
01:26:57,842 --> 01:26:59,478
the seeing for oneself.
1590
01:27:00,710 --> 01:27:02,346
Why First Autopsy?
1591
01:27:03,546 --> 01:27:04,906
Because we know
1592
01:27:04,941 --> 01:27:06,873
there'll have to be
a Second Autopsy.
1593
01:27:09,183 --> 01:27:11,115
If you want to do an autopsy,
1594
01:27:12,249 --> 01:27:13,873
you need a corpse.
1595
01:27:14,578 --> 01:27:16,214
Corporeal,
1596
01:27:16,480 --> 01:27:18,115
incorporate,
1597
01:27:19,183 --> 01:27:20,609
corpulent.
1598
01:27:21,315 --> 01:27:22,741
Body words.
1599
01:27:23,447 --> 01:27:24,873
Fleshy words.
1600
01:27:26,315 --> 01:27:27,741
(SIZZLING)
1601
01:27:28,315 --> 01:27:29,741
Brecken is our corpse.
1602
01:27:33,183 --> 01:27:34,708
Brecken was a young boy
1603
01:27:35,315 --> 01:27:36,807
who was murdered by his mother
1604
01:27:36,842 --> 01:27:38,478
(TREMULOUS BREATH)
1605
01:27:38,513 --> 01:27:40,840
Because of what was hidden
in his body.
1606
01:27:43,447 --> 01:27:45,807
Because of the meaning
that was there.
1607
01:27:48,644 --> 01:27:51,247
For her, the body
was not empty of meaning.
1608
01:27:53,809 --> 01:27:55,445
(CLICKING; SQUELCHING)
1609
01:27:57,908 --> 01:27:59,544
(ENGINES WHIRRING)
1610
01:28:02,578 --> 01:28:04,214
(SLOW EXHALE)
1611
01:28:04,249 --> 01:28:05,675
And now
1612
01:28:05,710 --> 01:28:08,675
let us dive deep
into the body of Brecken
1613
01:28:10,282 --> 01:28:11,708
and, like professors
1614
01:28:12,414 --> 01:28:14,148
of literature,
1615
01:28:14,677 --> 01:28:16,313
search for the meaning
1616
01:28:17,480 --> 01:28:19,115
that lies locked
1617
01:28:19,513 --> 01:28:21,148
in the poem
1618
01:28:21,941 --> 01:28:23,576
that was Brecken.
1619
01:28:24,216 --> 01:28:25,642
(BEEPING; CLICKING)
1620
01:28:32,546 --> 01:28:34,181
(SQUELCHING)
1621
01:28:34,381 --> 01:28:35,807
(AUDIENCE GASPS; MURMURS)
1622
01:28:35,842 --> 01:28:37,478
Oh, my God.
1623
01:28:37,513 --> 01:28:39,148
(OVERLAPPING CONVERSATIONS)
1624
01:28:54,941 --> 01:28:56,576
(CAMERA ROTORS WHIRRING)
1625
01:29:01,183 --> 01:29:02,609
Oh.
1626
01:29:13,315 --> 01:29:14,741
So, we see
1627
01:29:15,216 --> 01:29:16,642
that the crudeness
1628
01:29:17,348 --> 01:29:18,774
and the desperation
1629
01:29:19,348 --> 01:29:21,148
and the ugliness of the world
1630
01:29:21,513 --> 01:29:23,148
has seeped inside even
1631
01:29:23,447 --> 01:29:25,214
our youngest and most beautiful.
1632
01:29:25,249 --> 01:29:26,675
(TREMULOUS BREATH)
1633
01:29:26,710 --> 01:29:29,741
And we see that the world
is killing our children
1634
01:29:30,183 --> 01:29:31,609
from the inside out.
1635
01:29:32,183 --> 01:29:33,642
(EMOTIONAL SIGH)
1636
01:29:33,677 --> 01:29:36,642
Here we have the anatomy
of today's pathology.
1637
01:29:37,908 --> 01:29:40,840
And we know now why
we'll have a Second Autopsy,
1638
01:29:40,875 --> 01:29:42,675
and a Third.
1639
01:29:42,710 --> 01:29:44,346
(CAPRICE INHALES)
1640
01:29:44,381 --> 01:29:45,807
We know
1641
01:29:46,282 --> 01:29:47,708
that we'll have to keep...
1642
01:29:48,282 --> 01:29:50,115
diving back deep inside,
1643
01:29:51,282 --> 01:29:53,379
hoping to find
a different answer.
1644
01:29:56,315 --> 01:29:57,774
But for tonight,
1645
01:29:58,348 --> 01:30:01,675
let us not be afraid
to map the chaos inside.
1646
01:30:02,875 --> 01:30:04,511
(TREMULOUS EXHALE)
1647
01:30:04,941 --> 01:30:06,576
Let us create a map
1648
01:30:07,710 --> 01:30:09,346
that will guide us
1649
01:30:10,183 --> 01:30:11,873
into the heart of darkness.
1650
01:30:13,875 --> 01:30:15,511
(CAPRICE GASPS)
1651
01:30:15,941 --> 01:30:17,576
(SIGHS)
1652
01:30:22,776 --> 01:30:24,412
(BEEPING; CLICKING)
1653
01:30:24,447 --> 01:30:25,873
(SQUELCHING)
1654
01:30:27,578 --> 01:30:29,280
(CLICK; WHIRRING)
1655
01:30:32,710 --> 01:30:34,346
(CICADAS CHIRRING)
1656
01:30:37,183 --> 01:30:38,609
(SOBBING)
1657
01:30:43,546 --> 01:30:45,181
No, no, no.
1658
01:30:48,710 --> 01:30:50,445
No, no, no, no, no, no.
1659
01:30:55,677 --> 01:30:57,313
That was hideous.
1660
01:30:57,348 --> 01:30:58,774
I feel so awful.
1661
01:30:58,809 --> 01:31:01,609
That's not what he was inside,
that's not what he was.
1662
01:31:01,644 --> 01:31:03,280
She did this.
1663
01:31:03,315 --> 01:31:05,675
- She?
- She, she, she.
1664
01:31:05,710 --> 01:31:07,873
The ex-wife;
the mother of the cadaver.
1665
01:31:10,282 --> 01:31:11,708
(GASPS; SIGHS)
1666
01:31:11,743 --> 01:31:13,379
Djuna?
1667
01:31:13,677 --> 01:31:15,313
No, she didn't.
1668
01:31:15,348 --> 01:31:17,280
She had nothing to do with it.
1669
01:31:17,315 --> 01:31:18,741
Of course she did.
1670
01:31:18,776 --> 01:31:21,280
What you saw in there,
that was her message to me,
1671
01:31:21,315 --> 01:31:22,741
to me.
1672
01:31:22,776 --> 01:31:24,642
No, it wasn't.
1673
01:31:26,710 --> 01:31:29,280
I have a feeling
she'd approve of this, though.
1674
01:31:35,513 --> 01:31:37,313
(DRILLS WHIRRING)
1675
01:31:37,743 --> 01:31:39,379
(CRANIUM CRACKING)
1676
01:31:47,546 --> 01:31:49,181
(BODY THUDS)
1677
01:31:56,414 --> 01:31:57,840
(SOFT SCORE)
1678
01:32:03,644 --> 01:32:05,280
(FOOTSTEPS
RECEDING)
1679
01:32:18,710 --> 01:32:20,346
(METAL TINKLING)
1680
01:32:25,513 --> 01:32:27,148
I'm sorry I'm late.
1681
01:32:27,644 --> 01:32:29,280
Lots of meetings these days.
1682
01:32:29,842 --> 01:32:31,478
Hm...
1683
01:32:32,414 --> 01:32:34,840
New Vice is getting
quite big, is it?
1684
01:32:35,414 --> 01:32:36,840
It is now.
1685
01:32:36,875 --> 01:32:38,609
A lot of people running scared.
1686
01:32:39,348 --> 01:32:42,280
So many plastic-eaters
running around with scalpels.
1687
01:32:42,710 --> 01:32:44,346
Makes people insecure.
1688
01:32:44,908 --> 01:32:47,247
They're pretty good
with the scalpels,
1689
01:32:47,282 --> 01:32:48,708
those plastic-eaters.
1690
01:32:50,216 --> 01:32:51,807
Better than whoever
did that hack job
1691
01:32:51,842 --> 01:32:53,478
on Brecken's insides.
1692
01:32:56,776 --> 01:32:58,412
Yeah, so...
1693
01:32:59,578 --> 01:33:01,214
Okay...
1694
01:33:01,249 --> 01:33:02,774
Okay, we've got a man inside.
1695
01:33:03,414 --> 01:33:04,840
We got there first.
1696
01:33:05,480 --> 01:33:08,346
The kid was pretty weird
inside anyway.
1697
01:33:08,875 --> 01:33:10,609
You wouldn't have
recognized a thing,
1698
01:33:11,776 --> 01:33:13,708
but the hell of it was that...
1699
01:33:13,743 --> 01:33:15,445
it was all natural.
1700
01:33:15,480 --> 01:33:17,115
He was born that way.
1701
01:33:20,216 --> 01:33:21,642
(MUTTERING)
1702
01:33:23,546 --> 01:33:25,708
You wouldn't want
everybody to know that.
1703
01:33:26,776 --> 01:33:28,412
I couldn't.
1704
01:33:28,447 --> 01:33:29,807
I couldn't let that out.
1705
01:33:29,842 --> 01:33:31,774
Once that got out of the box,
1706
01:33:31,809 --> 01:33:34,609
you would never be able
to put it back in.
1707
01:33:36,578 --> 01:33:39,247
Your friend at the Registry
did the work.
1708
01:33:39,282 --> 01:33:40,741
"Inspired
by Caprice."
1709
01:33:40,776 --> 01:33:42,214
My friend?
1710
01:33:42,249 --> 01:33:43,576
You mean, Wippet?
1711
01:33:43,611 --> 01:33:45,873
No, that strange little woman.
1712
01:33:45,908 --> 01:33:48,313
- What's her name?
- (SNAPPING FINGERS)
1713
01:33:48,348 --> 01:33:49,774
Uh, Timlin.
1714
01:33:52,875 --> 01:33:55,445
I wondered what she was doing
at the show.
1715
01:33:56,447 --> 01:33:58,807
I guess she couldn't resist
checking out her work.
1716
01:33:59,381 --> 01:34:01,609
She really wants to be
Caprice for you,
1717
01:34:01,644 --> 01:34:03,379
if you know what I mean.
1718
01:34:03,414 --> 01:34:05,280
And I know that you do.
1719
01:34:06,677 --> 01:34:08,313
And Dotrice's assassination?
1720
01:34:08,348 --> 01:34:09,774
Assassination?
1721
01:34:09,809 --> 01:34:11,445
(HANDS HIT SIDES)
1722
01:34:11,908 --> 01:34:13,544
Fancy word for murder.
1723
01:34:13,908 --> 01:34:15,675
He was a leader.
1724
01:34:15,710 --> 01:34:17,346
He had a cause.
1725
01:34:19,578 --> 01:34:22,379
Whatever it was,
it was a surprise to me too.
1726
01:34:22,414 --> 01:34:25,642
You have a bad habit
of not telling me things.
1727
01:34:26,348 --> 01:34:27,873
It makes it difficult
to function.
1728
01:34:28,414 --> 01:34:30,774
I'm telling you,
we didn't know about it.
1729
01:34:34,348 --> 01:34:35,774
Maybe...
1730
01:34:35,809 --> 01:34:37,445
Maybe
1731
01:34:37,480 --> 01:34:39,544
his crazy wife
got to him somehow.
1732
01:34:39,578 --> 01:34:41,214
I don't know.
1733
01:34:41,677 --> 01:34:43,346
No, no, no.
1734
01:34:45,282 --> 01:34:47,214
Well, it doesn't matter
who killed him.
1735
01:34:49,546 --> 01:34:51,478
It's going to make him a martyr.
1736
01:34:53,381 --> 01:34:54,807
Just what the cause needs.
1737
01:34:58,414 --> 01:34:59,840
The cause?
1738
01:35:01,578 --> 01:35:03,774
Sounds like you are
becoming a believer.
1739
01:35:06,546 --> 01:35:09,181
If you're going to be good
at living undercover,
1740
01:35:10,480 --> 01:35:12,412
a part of you has to believe.
1741
01:35:14,513 --> 01:35:16,148
(DRAMATIC SCORE)
1742
01:35:17,743 --> 01:35:19,346
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)
1743
01:35:19,381 --> 01:35:20,774
Saul!
1744
01:35:22,381 --> 01:35:23,807
Saul!
1745
01:35:27,776 --> 01:35:29,412
(TENSER MOANING)
1746
01:35:30,414 --> 01:35:31,840
(CAPRICE MOANING)
1747
01:35:33,644 --> 01:35:35,280
(TENSER GROANING)
1748
01:35:36,216 --> 01:35:37,642
Oh...
1749
01:35:37,677 --> 01:35:39,313
(TENSER GAGGING)
1750
01:35:39,710 --> 01:35:41,346
Uh!
1751
01:35:41,842 --> 01:35:43,478
(CAPRICE BREATHING HEAVILY)
1752
01:35:45,183 --> 01:35:46,609
(TENSER GAGGING)
1753
01:35:46,809 --> 01:35:48,445
(TENSER COUGHS)
1754
01:35:49,710 --> 01:35:51,346
Uh, uh-uh.
1755
01:35:53,282 --> 01:35:54,708
(TENSER MOANING; GAGGING)
1756
01:36:03,875 --> 01:36:05,511
(CAPRICE BREATHING HEAVILY)
1757
01:36:06,447 --> 01:36:07,873
You are in pain.
1758
01:36:15,776 --> 01:36:17,412
Uh...
1759
01:36:21,710 --> 01:36:23,346
Was I?
1760
01:36:24,447 --> 01:36:25,873
What's it like?
1761
01:36:29,315 --> 01:36:30,741
Physical pain?
1762
01:36:31,414 --> 01:36:32,840
Yes.
1763
01:36:34,447 --> 01:36:35,873
(SIGHS)
1764
01:36:35,908 --> 01:36:38,214
It's hard to be clear about it.
1765
01:36:38,578 --> 01:36:40,214
It becomes...
1766
01:36:41,578 --> 01:36:43,214
part of the dreaming.
1767
01:36:44,249 --> 01:36:45,675
Mixes with
1768
01:36:45,710 --> 01:36:48,148
the emotional pain
of the dreaming,
1769
01:36:48,710 --> 01:36:50,346
so it's-it's...
1770
01:36:52,644 --> 01:36:54,280
It's confused.
1771
01:36:55,447 --> 01:36:56,873
I...
1772
01:36:58,578 --> 01:37:00,214
I almost thought...
1773
01:37:01,776 --> 01:37:03,412
I almost thought I was...
1774
01:37:03,743 --> 01:37:05,379
I was feeling.
1775
01:37:06,710 --> 01:37:08,346
Ah.
1776
01:37:08,941 --> 01:37:10,576
Ahh...
1777
01:37:13,183 --> 01:37:14,708
Did you dream about Dotrice?
1778
01:37:19,908 --> 01:37:21,544
(TENSER SIGHS)
1779
01:37:24,677 --> 01:37:26,313
Dotrice...
1780
01:37:27,480 --> 01:37:29,115
Djuna and Brecken.
1781
01:37:33,546 --> 01:37:35,280
They were all in the Sark
1782
01:37:35,546 --> 01:37:37,181
together.
1783
01:37:37,216 --> 01:37:38,642
(SIGHS)
1784
01:37:38,677 --> 01:37:40,313
A family autopsy.
1785
01:37:42,447 --> 01:37:43,873
(GRUNTS)
1786
01:37:46,381 --> 01:37:48,115
Who was at the controls?
1787
01:37:48,842 --> 01:37:50,478
You.
1788
01:37:53,842 --> 01:37:55,478
And I.
1789
01:37:56,809 --> 01:37:58,445
We both were.
1790
01:37:59,842 --> 01:38:01,478
(QUIET SCORE)
1791
01:38:24,875 --> 01:38:26,511
(MOTORS WHIRRING)
1792
01:38:26,546 --> 01:38:28,181
(CLACKING)
1793
01:38:28,941 --> 01:38:30,576
(GROAN)
1794
01:38:45,578 --> 01:38:47,214
(CAPRICE SIGHS)
1795
01:38:57,941 --> 01:38:59,576
(PLASTIC CRINKLING)
1796
01:39:03,842 --> 01:39:05,478
(GAGGING)
1797
01:39:05,513 --> 01:39:07,148
(MOTORS WHIRRING)
1798
01:39:08,677 --> 01:39:10,313
(GROANS)
1799
01:39:12,447 --> 01:39:13,873
(COUGHING; GAGGING)
1800
01:39:14,809 --> 01:39:16,445
Well, Saul...
1801
01:39:17,348 --> 01:39:18,774
what do you think?
1802
01:39:19,677 --> 01:39:21,313
(GRUNTS)
1803
01:39:21,348 --> 01:39:23,379
Yes. I think yes.
1804
01:39:24,710 --> 01:39:26,346
(PAINED BREATH)
1805
01:39:26,776 --> 01:39:28,412
It's time to try it.
1806
01:39:33,216 --> 01:39:34,576
(COUGH; GAGGING)
1807
01:39:48,842 --> 01:39:50,478
(MOANS)
1808
01:40:02,216 --> 01:40:03,642
(GROANING)
1809
01:40:06,480 --> 01:40:08,115
(CHAIR BUZZES)
1810
01:40:08,644 --> 01:40:10,280
(MOTORS POWER DOWN)
1811
01:40:10,315 --> 01:40:11,741
(EMOTIONAL SCORE)
1812
01:40:16,447 --> 01:40:17,873
(CALM EXHALE)
1813
01:40:22,183 --> 01:40:23,609
(EXHALE)
1814
01:40:23,644 --> 01:40:25,280
(CHAIR PURRING)
1815
01:40:31,447 --> 01:40:32,873
(LONG EXHALE)
1816
01:40:39,480 --> 01:40:41,115
(PURRING)
1817
01:40:43,809 --> 01:40:45,807
(CLOSING THEME)
1818
01:46:47,593 --> 01:46:49,594
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