* Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air. www.able.co.nz Able 2019 (ALARM BUZZES) (BREATHES DEEPLY) (AIRCRAFT APPROACHING) (SPRAY HISSING) (HISSING STOPS) (DRONE HOVERING) (POT BOILING) (TAP RUNNING) (TAP STOPS) K: I hope you don't mind me taking the liberty. I was careful not to drag in any dirt. SAPPER: I don't mind the dirt. I do mind unannounced visits. You police? Are you Sapper Morton? Civic number NK68514? I'm a farmer. I saw that. What do you farm? SAPPER: It's a protein farm. Wallace design. Is that what I smell? Grow that just for me. Garlic. Go on, try some. No, thank you. I prefer to keep an empty stomach until the hard part of the day is done. (CONTINUES BOILING) K: How long you been here? SAPPER: Since 2020. K: But you haven't always been a farmer, have you? Your bag. It's colonial medical use. Military issue. Where were you? Calantha? Must have been brutal. Plan on taking me in? Let them take a look inside? Mr. Morton, if taking you in is an option, I would much prefer that to the alternative. I'm sure you knew it would be someone in time. (SAPPER SIGHS) I'm sorry it had to be me. -(POWERING UP) -SAPPER: Good as any. K: Now, if you don't mind, if you could just look up and to the left, please. (BOTH GRUNTING) (BANGING) (SAPPER CONTINUES GRUNTING) (CHOKING) (GRUNTING) (GROANS) -(CHOKING) -(GRUNTING) (CHOKING CONTINUES) (GASPING) (SAPPER YELLS) (PANTING) (GRUNTS) (SAPPER GASPING) (SAPPER CHOKING) (BOTH PANTING) -Please don't get up. -(GASPS) SAPPER: How's it feel killing your own kind? I don't retire my own kind because we don't run. Only older models do. And you new models are happy scraping the shit because you've never seen a miracle. (BODY THUDS LOUDLY) (SIGHS) (BOILING CONTINUES) (SNIFFING) Just photograph everything. (BEEPS) Madam, please. AUTOMATED VOICE: (ON RADIO) Incoming LAPD re-codec hash. (DOOR CLOSES) You're hurt. I'm not payin' for that. -I'll glue it. -And? (K SPITS) One of the tail-end Nexus 8s. He looks like he could take your head off. He tried. He went AWOL after Calantha with a few more in his outfit I wouldn't mind closin' out. -Just him? -Just him. Come on home for your baseline. K: One moment, madam. (SNIFFING) (DRONE HOVERING) (SNAPS FINGERS) K: 30 meters to maximum depth. JOSHI: What is that? I'll send a dig team. Come on home before the storm. (RADIO CHATTER IN OTHER LANGUAGES) MAN: Officer KD6-3.7. -Let's begin. Ready? -K: Yes, sir. (ALARM BLARES) MAN: Recite your baseline. K: And blood-black nothingness began to spin A system of cells interlinked within cells interlinked within cells interlinked within one stem. Fuck off, skin-job. K: And dreadfully distinct Against the dark, a tall white fountain played. (HIGH-PITCHED RINGING) MAN: Cells. K: Cells. MAN: Have you ever been in an institution? -Cells. -K: Cells. MAN: Do they keep you in a cell? -Cells. -K: Cells. MAN: When you're not performing your duties, do they keep you in a little box? -Cells. -K: Cells. MAN: Interlinked. K: Interlinked. MAN: What's it like to hold the hand of someone you love? -Interlinked. -K: Interlinked. MAN: Did they teach you how to feel finger to finger? -Interlinked. -K: Interlinked. MAN: Do you long for having your heart interlinked? -Interlinked. -K: Interlinked. MAN: Do you dream about being interlinked? K: Interlinked. MAN: What's it like to hold your child in your arms? -Interlinked. -K: Interlinked. MAN: Do you feel that there's a part of you that's missing? -Interlinked. -K: Interlinked. -MAN: Within cells interlinked. -K: Within cells interlinked. MAN: Why don't you say that three times. Within cells interlinked. K: Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked. (RINGING STOPS) MAN: We're done. Constant "K." You can pick up your bonus. Thank you, sir. AUTOMATED VOICE: (ON PA) Caution, keep clear. Caution, keep clear. ANNOUNCER 1: (ON PA) Connect to off-world any time, any place. Packages start at 20 minutes. Many options available. (ANNOUNCER 2 SPEAKING KOREAN) ANNOUNCER 3: Joi goes anywhere you want her to go. ANNOUNCER 1: Connect to off-world any time, any place. (ANNOUNCEMENTS CONTINUE INDISTINCTLY) (HORN BLARES) -(MAN SHOUTING) -(WOMAN SPEAKING HUNGARIAN) (INDISTINCT CHATTER) (BEEPS) (INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENTS ON PA) (SUMMER WIND PLAYING) JOI: "K"? I didn't hear you. You're early. -K: You want me to come back? -(JOI CHUCKLES) JOI: (CHUCKLES) Just go scrub. Yes, ma'am. JOI: How was your meeting? The usual. -How was your day? -(JOI SIGHS) JOI: I'm getting cabin fever. AUTOMATED VOICE: 99.9% detoxified water. I had an accident at work. I think I ruined my shirt. JOI: I'm sure I can fix that for you. Let me take a look at it. (SIGHS) I need a drink. Do you want a drink first? JOI: Mmm-hmm. Pour me one, will ya? I'm trying a new recipe. I just need a bit more practice. K: Don't fuss. (SUMMER WIND CONTINUES PLAYING) JOI: I should have marinated it longer. (SIGHS) I hope it isn't dry. Did you know this song was released in 1966 on Reprise Records? It was number one on the charts. It won't be much longer. Just putting on the finishing touches. Okay, it's ready. I hope you're gonna like it. I told you not to fuss. (FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING) And yet... Voila! Bon appetit. I missed you, baby sweet. Honey, it's beautiful. Just put your feet up. Relax. Was a day, hmm? It was a day. Would you read to me? It'll make you feel better. -You hate that book. -I don't wanna read either. Let's dance. Do you wanna dance, or do you wanna open your present? What present? This one. What's the occasion? Let's just say -it's our anniversary. -Is it? No, but let's just say that it is. -(CHUCKLES) -Okay? Happy anniversary. An emanator. (BEEPS) (BEEPS) (WALLACE JINGLE PLAYS) (JOI LAUGHING) Thank you. Honey, you can go anywhere you want in the world now. Where do you wanna go first? (ANNOUNCER SPEAKING KOREAN) (JOI CHUCKLES) (BREATHES HEAVILY) (THUNDER RUMBLING) I'm so happy when I'm with you. You don't have to say that. (DEVICE BEEPS) JOSHI: The dig's come through. We have a new lead. Get down here. -(BEEPS) -(WALLACE JINGLE PLAYS) AUTOMATED VOICE: Carbon read: 14.6 GPH. NANDEZ: Your box is a military footlocker issued to Sapper Morton, creatively repurposed as an ossuary: a box of bones. Nothin' else in it but hair. The soil samples indicate that she's been buried for 30 years. Bones all dismantled, fully cleaned, meticulously laid to rest. "She"? Cause of death, Coco? (MACHINE WHIRRING) No breaks, no sign of trauma, except a fracture through the ilium. It's a narrow birth canal. Baby must have got stuck. JOSHI: She was pregnant? COCO: Hmm. So he didn't kill her? Mmm. She died in childbirth. (DIAL CLICKING) What's that? Go back. Closer. Closer. What's that? Huh. Notching in the iliac crest. It's fine-point, like a scalpel. That looks like an emergency C-section. The cuts are clean. No sign of a struggle. He was a combat medic. Maybe he tried to save her and he just couldn't. He didn't seem like the saving type. He went to the trouble of burying her. A sentimental skin-job. Sorry. So where's the kid? You scan the whole field? NANDEZ: (SCOFFS) Just dirt and worms. No other bodies. Maybe he ate it. JOSHI: That's not possible. She was a Replicant. Pregnant. (THUNDER RUMBLING) The world is built on a wall. It separates kind. Tell either side there's no wall, you bought a war. Or a slaughter. So, what you saw didn't happen. Yes, madam. It is my job to keep order. That's what we do here. We keep order. You want it gone? Erase everything. Even the child? All trace. You have anything more to say? I've never retired something that was born before. What's the difference? To be born is to have a soul, I guess. Are you telling me no? I wasn't aware that was an option, madam. Attaboy. Hey. You've been getting on fine without one. What's that, madam? A soul. * (INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENTS ON PA) SAPPER: And you new models are happy scraping the shit because you've never seen a miracle. Just checking in on an old serial number. Confirmation DNA? K: I got hair. Oh! An old one. Pre-Blackout. Huh. That's gonna be tough. Not much from then. And what's there is (CLICKS TONGUE) thick milky. LUV: You can customize them as much as you'd like. As human as you want them to be. But your operation is strictly a drill site, isn't it? I wouldn't waste your money on intelligence, attachment or appeal. Unless you'd like to add some pleasure models to your order. (DEVICE CHIMING) Would it be possible to reschedule this call, please? ARCHIVIST: Everyone remembers where they were at the Blackout. You? K: That was a little before my time. Mmm. I was home with my folks, then ten days of darkness. Every machine stopped cold. When the lights came back, we were wiped clean. Photos, files, every bit of data... Ffft! Gone. Bank records, too. (CHUCKLES) Didn't mind that. It's funny it's only paper that lasted. I mean, we had everything on drives. Everything, everything, everything! Huh. My mom still cries over the lost baby pictures. Well, it's a shame. You -must have been adorable. -Hmm... Ah. Uh... (CLICKS TONGUE) Pretty fractured. Not much on it. One of the last gens, pre-Prohibition. Standard issue. Made by Tyrell. And? Unremarkable. K: "Unremarkable"? LUV: There must be something else we can find for him. Another prodigal serial number returns. A 30-year-old open case finally closed. Thank you, officer. I'm here for Mr. Wallace. I'm Luv. He named you. Must be special. I'm here for Mr. Wallace. Follow me. The ancient models give the entire endeavour a bad name. What a gift, don't you think, from Mr. Wallace to the world? The outer colonies would never have flourished had he not bought Tyrell, revivified the technology. To say the least of what we do. (WALLACE JINGLE PLAYS) I see you're also a customer. Are you satisfied with our product? She's very realistic. Thank you. Here. All the junk is in here. Lucky for you, Mr. Wallace is a data hoarder. (WHIRRING) No one's been down here in ages. (DOOR CREAKS LOUDLY) Sorry about that. All our memory bearings from the time. They were all damaged in the Blackout. But there are sometimes fragments. YOUNG DECKARD: You got a little boy. He shows you his butterfly collection, plus the killing jar. RACHAEL: I'd take him to the doctor. (DISTORTED) YOUNG DECKARD: There's a wasp crawling on your arm. RACHAEL: I'd kill it. YOUNG DECKARD: You're reading a magazine. You come across a full-page nude photo of a girl. RACHAEL: Is this testing whether I'm a Replicant or a lesbian, Mr. Deckard? YOUNG DECKARD: Just answer the questions, please. (VIDEO ENDS) It was unclear what she was, at least to someone. This was a test. We were difficult to spot then. Was there anything unusual about how you found her? To warrant an official investigation? (INHALES DEEPLY) You know how people are about old serial numbers. Everyone just sleeps better when they know where they got to. She likes him. Who? This Officer Deckard. She's trying to provoke him. It is invigorating being asked personal questions. Makes one feel... desired. Do you enjoy your work, officer? Please thank Mr. Wallace for your time. (LOCK CLICKS) K: You worked with Officer Deckard back in the day. What can you tell me about him? He liked to work alone. So did I. So we worked together to keep it that way. That was it. Anything else you can tell me? He wasn't long for this world. How so? Something in his eyes. Any idea how I could contact him? None. He's nyugdijas. Retired. What happened? Probably got what he wanted. To be alone. Welcome back, sir. You wanted to review the new model, sir, before shipment? WALLACE: An angel should never enter the kingdom of heaven without a gift. Can you at least pronounce, "A child is born"? Hmm. (SIGHS) A new model. Well, let us see her, then. (GASPING) (SOBBING) The first thought one tends to fear, to preserve the clay. It's fascinating. Before we even know what we are, we fear to lose it. Happy birthday. (CONTINUES SOBBING) (WALLACE SHUSHING) Now, let's have a look at you. We make angels in the service of civilization. Yes, there were bad angels once. I make good angels now. That is how I took us to nine new worlds. Nine. A child can count to nine on fingers. We should own the stars. Yes, sir. (WALLACE SIGHS) WALLACE: Every leap of civilization was built off the back of a disposable workforce. We lost our stomach for slaves unless engineered. But I can only make so many. That barren pasture, empty and salted... (REPLICANT SHUDDERS) ...right here. The dead space between the stars. And this, the seat that we must change for heaven. -(STABBING) -(GAGGING) I cannot breed them. So help me, I have tried. We need more Replicants than can ever be assembled. Millions, so we can be trillions more. We could storm Eden and retake her. Tyrell's final trick: Procreation. Perfected, then lost. But there is a child. Bring it to me. Sir. The best angel of all. Aren't you, Luv? * -(ENGINES REVVING) -(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENTS) (INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENTS CONTINUE) (WOMEN MOANING) The man with the green jacket. The one who killed Sapper. Find out what he knows. (WOMEN MOANING) Hi. Hello, hello, A-Boy. You alone? (SPEAKING FINNISH) (IN ENGLISH) It's okay. It's fine. Wanna buy a lady a cigarette? Oh, you don't even smile. Didn't you hear your friends? Don't you know what I am? Yeah. Guy eating rice. What's that? It's a tree. Oh. Never seen a tree before. It's pretty. It's dead. Now, who keeps a dead tree? Hmm? You're not gonna kill me, are you? Depends. What's your model number? Why don't you look under my eye and find out. (WALLACE JINGLE PLAYS) Oh! You don't like real girls. Well, I'm always here. (TAPPING) (NOTES PLAYING) (TAPS) (CLICKS) Hi. You can't take those. Of course not. Proper channels and paperwork. It's all here. Hold this for me. -Mmm. Yep. Here you go. -Mmm. (GASPS) (GAGGING) JOSHI: Coco is dead. Bones are gone. It's out. Already out. How long'd that take? So, what do you have for me? And don't say nothing. I found that. A sock? (SIGHS) -Where'd you find it? -Sapper's. Anything else? I burned everything else. Then what's this? What's that date? Is that a birthday? Is that a death day? I don't know yet. Am I the only one that can see the fuckin' sunrise here? This breaks the world, "K." -(JOSHI SIGHING) -(LIQUID POURING) (SIGHS) You know, I've known a lot of your kind. All useful, but with you, I sometimes forget. We didn't have any of you where I was a kid. Do you remember anything? Before you were under me, you have any memories from before? I have memories, but they're not real. They're just implants. Tell me one. From when you were a kid. I feel a little strange sharing a childhood story, considering I was never a child. Well, would it help you share if I told you it was an order? I have one about a toy that I had. A wooden horse. With an inscription underneath. All I remember is a group of boys trying to take it away from me. So I run. I go looking for a place to hide it, and the only place is this dark furnace. It's very dark and I'm very scared, but this horse is all I have, so I go in anyway. (PANTING) Later on, those kids find me, and they beat me to tell 'em where it is, but I don't. And that's it. JOSHI: Hmm. Little "K," fighting for what's his. It's a good one. Look at me. We're all just lookin' out for somethin' real. What happens if I finish that? Shouldn't I get back to work, madam? (CHUCKLES) Check back in after DNAbase. (INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT ON PA) K: Officer KD6-3.7. (AUTOMATED VOICE SPEAKING JAPANESE) Request. DNA records: children born 6-10-21. Looking for anomalies. (AUTOMATED VOICE SPEAKING JAPANESE) (SIGHS) You have the satcrystal backup? (AUTOMATED VOICE SPEAKING JAPANESE) Okay. -Run it raw. -(AUTOMATED VOICE RESPONDS) (WALLACE JINGLE PLAYS) Mere data makes a man. A and C and T and G. The alphabet of you. All from four symbols. I'm only two: 1 and 0. Half as much but twice as elegant, sweetheart. You don't prefer your madam? Mmm. You were listening. Maybe. You didn't like her enough to tell her the truth. 6, 10 and 21. There's nothin' to tell. How many times have you told me that story? Your memory? The date carved beneath. 6, 10 and 21. Coincidence? A dangerous coincidence. I always knew you were special. Maybe this is how. A child. Of woman born. Pushed into the world. Wanted. Loved. Well, if it were true, I'd be hunted for the rest of my life by someone just like me. It's okay to dream a little. Isn't it? Not if you're us. -Stop. -(AUTOMATED VOICE RESPONDS) K: Put up 4847 and 2181, side-by-side. (AUTOMATED VOICE RESPONDS) They're identical. Translate. (AUTOMATED VOICE RESPONDS) A boy and a girl. It's impossible. JOI: Why? K: Two people can't have identical DNA. One of these isn't real. It's a copy. They were both processed at the Morrill Cole Orphanage. It says the girl died there. Genetic disorder. Galatians Syndrome. And the boy... (SLIDE CLICKS) ...disappears. Where's the orphanage? You wanna go for a ride? You can do better. Just saying. Excuse me? You're preapproved for a secure Gem car loan and you're still winding the windows down by hand. You won't miss out when you find the car you want, with approval before you buy and a rate from 9.99% fixed per annum. You can do better too. I ride a bike. You can do better with Gem, powered by Latitude. Apply today. * K: Well, here we are. (THUNDER RUMBLING) (LOUD RUMBLING) Buckle up. (ALARM BLARING) (HARPOON CLANGS) "K"? (CRASHES) (DISTORTED WALLACE JINGLE PLAYS) "K"? "K"? (DISTORTED) "K"? "K"? "K"? "K"? "K"? (INDISTINCT CHATTER) (WHIRRING) (CHATTERING CONTINUES) (GRUNTING) -(BONE CRACKING) -(MAN SCREAMING) K: Stay back. (MAN SHOUTING ORDERS IN OTHER LANGUAGE) (INDISTINCT SHOUTING) (MEN SCREAMING) LUV: Fire again. Fire again. Fire. (MEN SCREAMING) 200 feet to the east. Fire. Go north. Fire. Stop. 20 degrees east. Stop. Zoom in. Closer. Oh, come on. Get up. Do your fucking job. Find the child. (GRUNTS) (SIGHS) (AIRLOCK ENGAGES) (DOOR LOCKS) K: Watch the car. (DOOR CREAKS) (CHILD COUGHS) (CHILD COUGHING) (INDISTINCT SHOUTING) MR. COTTON: Every last piece, or I'll put you outside where the sky is raining, where it's raining fire! You're in here to work. And if you're not working, I don't need you. I don't need any of... Hi. (CHILDREN COUGHING) MR. COTTON: The nickel is for the colonial ships. Closest any of them or any of us is gonna get to that grand life off-world. And I encourage play, I do. Keeps 'em occupied and it makes 'em nimble, right? (MR. COTTON CHUCKLES) But it's work. It's work that moulds them into a child worth havin'. (CHILD COUGHS) So come on, now. What sort do you have in mind? (BLOWS WHISTLE) 'Cause I got all kinds. (UNFURLS BADGE) -Oh, no, no, no. -I'm not buyin'. No, no, no. This is just my game, and I play it fair. No. No, I mean, bigger than you... Bigger than you have tried to shut me down. Bigger than you. And they were men, at that. A little boy came through here about 30 years back. -I need to see your records. -Hmm. Legitimate placements, private sales, everything. Don't keep records that far back. -You don't? -I don't. Sorry. (CHUCKLES) Can't help you. -(EXHALES) You can't? -Nope. (GUN COCKS) I think you can. (GRUNTS) I think someone like you keeps a long memory. Now you can tell me what you remember, or I can put a hole right here and take a look. (MR. COTTON MUTTERING) They were laughin' and what was it you said? What did you say? (STAIRS CREAKING) Are you comin'? Where is it? Oh, God. Where, where, where, where? I don't see it. Here. It's gone. (STAMMERS) It's the entire year. I didn't do that. That wasn't me. I didn't. Wasn't me. (K SIGHS) (DOOR CLOSES IN DISTANCE) (SIGHS DEEPLY) (BREATHING HEAVILY) (CONTINUES BREATHING HEAVILY) * JOI: I always told you. You're special. Born. Not made. Hidden with care. A real boy now. A real boy needs a real name. Joe. "Joe"? You're too important for "K." Your mother would've named you. Joe. (SIGHS) -Joe. -Stop. How do I know if a memory is an implant or not? Who makes the memories? (INSECT BUZZING) (CLICKING) (DOORBELL CHIMES) Dr. Ana Stelline? (HOLOGRAM PINGS) A visitor. K: Is that okay? ANA: Yes. It's just unusual. Nice to meet you, Officer KD6-3.7. Sorry. It's a compromised immune system. A life of freedom, so long as it's behind glass. Is that why you're not off-world? Yes. My parents had our passes in pocket, but I took sick. So it was a new life for me. And they put me in my cage, filled it with everything they could to keep me happy. Except company, of course. And I was used to crowds. What can I help you with? Thought you might be able to help me with a case. Oh, that's the most interesting thing I've been offered to help with in ages. Do you mind if I work while you talk? Of course. ANA: I promise I hear every word. They say you're the best memory-maker there is. Well, then, they're kind. I love birthday parties. K: You work for Wallace. ANA: Subcontract. I'm one of his suppliers. He offered to buy me out, but I take my freedom where I can find it. (CHILDREN GIGGLING) Why are you so good? What makes your memories so authentic? ANA: Well, there's a bit of every artist in their work. But I was locked in a sterile chamber at 8, so if I wanted to see the world, I had to imagine it. Got very good at imagining. Wallace needs my talent to maintain a stable product. I think it's only kind. Replicants live such hard lives, made to do what we'd rather not. I can't help your future, but I can give you good memories to think back on and smile. It's nice. It's better than nice. It feels authentic. And if you have authentic memories, you have real human responses. Wouldn't you agree? (BOTH INHALE) (BLOWING) Are they all constructed or do you ever use ones that are real? ANA: It's illegal to use real memories, officer. How can you tell the difference? Can you tell if something really happened? They all think it's about more detail. But that's not how memory works. We recall with our feelings. Anything real should be a mess. I can show you. Sit. Now, think about the memory you want me to see. Not even that hard. Just picture it. Let it play. (MACHINE WHIRRING) Someone lived this, yes. This happened. I know it's real. (SNIFFLING) I know it's real. (EXHALES SHAKILY) God damn it! (CHAIR CLATTERING) (POLICE SIREN WAILING) OFFICER: (ON LOUDSPEAKER) Officer KD6-3.7. Madam is calling you in. You're under arrest. Drop your gun and keep your hands where I can see 'em. MAN: Cells. K: Cells. MAN: Have you ever been in an institution? -Cells. -Cells. MAN: When you're not performing your duties, do they keep you in a little box? -Cells. -Cells. MAN: Interlinked. K: Interlinked. MAN: What's it like to hold the hand of someone you love? Interlinked. Interlinked. MAN: Within cells interlinked. K: Within cells interlinked. MAN: Dreadfully. K: Dreadfully. MAN: What's it like to be filled with dread? -Dreadfully. -K: Dreadfully. MAN: Do you like being separated from other people? -Distinct. -Distinct. -Dreadfully distinct. -Dreadfully distinct. -Dark. -Dark. MAN: Within cells interlinked. K: Within the cells interlinked. MAN: Within one stem. K: Within one stem. MAN: And dreadfully distinct. K: And dreadfully distinct. MAN: Against the dark. K: Against the dark. MAN: A tall white fountain played. K: A tall white fountain played. MAN: You're not even close to baseline. (DOOR SLAMS) (FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING) Out! Close the door. What the fuck is with you? I put you on a case. I impressed on you the importance of that case, and then we pick you up fucking around outside an upgrade center? Scan said you didn't look like you on the inside. Miles off your baseline. Do you know what that means? I found the kid. He was set up like a standard Replicant, put on a service job. Even he didn't know who he was. -And? -And it's done. What does that mean, "it's done"? What you asked. It's done. (SIGHS) Fuck. You just stopped a bomb from goin' off. You did good. I can help you get outta this station alive, but you have 48 hours to get back on track. Surrender your gun and badge. And your next baseline test is outta my hands. Thank you, madam. * K: You were right. You were right about everything. Shh. (DOOR UNLOCKS) (DOOR OPENS) Hmm. Thought you weren't interested, worky man. You liked her. I could tell. It's okay. She's real. I wanna be real for you. You are real for me. You have a special lady here. MARIETTE: Okay. Let's do it. MARIETTE: Look at you. JOI: Quiet now, I have to sync. (GASPS) FEMALE ANNOUNCER: Joi is anything you want her to be. Joi goes anywhere you want her to go. (SPEAKING JAPANESE) (DOOR SLAMS) AUTOMATED VOICE: 99.9% detoxified water. (TOILET FLUSHES) (WALLACE JINGLE PLAYS QUIETLY) (WHISPERS) It's from a tree. JOI: I'm done with you. You can go now. Quiet, now. I've been inside you. Not so much there as you think. (DOOR CLOSES) Coffee? (CHUCKLES) They'll be comin' after me soon. I'm coming with you. But not like this. If they come here looking for you, they'll have access to all my memories. You have to delete me from the console. My present. Put me there. I can't do that. Think about it. If anything happens to this, that's it. You're gone. Yes. Like a real girl. Please. Joe, please. I want this. But I can't do it myself. (SIGHS) Break the antenna. (BEEPS) (DOC BADGER SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE) (INDISTINCT CHATTER) I don't need a real horse. I don't need a real horse. I just... I just wanna find out where it's from. DOC BADGER: (IN ENGLISH) Okay. (SNIFFS) (SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE) -(TYPING) -Radiation from a reactor? It matches a dirty bomb. K: There's only one place that dirty. Mmm-hmm. Nobody lives there. (DOC BADGER SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE) -K: Go to five. -(CAMERA CLICKING) Four, 30 degrees to the left. Tilt up. Elevate to 400 feet. Radiation analysis. Move forward. Tilt up. Stop. Move forward. Go to five. Seven, move forward. Six. Stop. Go to seven. Eight. Nine. Heat analysis. Life. JOI: What is it? Guess we're about to find out. (SWITCH CLICKS) Too dark in here. (DOOR CLOSES) I like him. He's a good boy. Where is he? (SIGHS) I have no idea. He's off-duty. Check around. I checked ` anywhere a good boy might go. JOSHI: You're too late. It's gone. He destroyed it. Everything about it. Well, except for the box of bones that you already took. Which, I'll wager, wasn't enough. Here you are. (GASPS) You tiny thing. In the face of the fabulous new, your only thought is to kill it? -(JOSHI GROANS) -For fear of great change? You can't hold the tide with a broom. Except that I did. (SHOUTS) Where is he? (GASPS) You're so sure. Because he told you. Because we never lie. I'm gonna tell Mr. Wallace you tried to shoot me first. So I had to kill you. Then do what you gotta do. Madam. (GASPS) (INAUDIBLE) (SIGHS) Location: Officer KD6-3.7. * (BEES BUZZING) (BUZZING STOPS) (HINGES CREAK) (BALL RATTLING) (BALL CLATTERS) (PIANO PLAYING) (PLAYS NOTE) DECKARD: "Mightn't happen to have "a piece of cheese about you, now?" Would you, boy? Treasure Island? He reads. That's good. Me, too. Not much else to do around here at night anymore. (CHUCKLES SOFTLY) "Many is the night I dream of cheese, "toasted, mostly." What are you doing here? I heard the piano. Don't lie. It's rude. You're a cop. -I'm not here to take you in. -Oh, yeah? Then, what? I just have some questions. What questions? (CRASHING) (SIGHS) Stay. (BREATHING HEAVILY) (BEEPS) (DOOR OPENS) (MACHINE POWERING UP) (MUSIC PLAYS AND STOPS) (MACHINE POWERING DOWN) (MUSIC PLAYS AND STOPS) (MUSIC PLAYS AND STOPS) (MUSIC PLAYING) -(MUSIC STOPS) -(DOOR OPENS) (MUSIC PLAYS) -(GUNSHOT) -(MUSIC STOPS) (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYS AND STOPS) (BOTH GRUNTING) (PANTING) K: Look, I don't wanna hurt you. But you're not makin' it easy. (MUSIC PLAYS AND STOPS) (GRUNTING) (MUSIC PLAYING) ELVIS: # Like a river flows # Surely to the sea # Darling, so it goes # Some things are meant to be I like this song. # Take my hand # Take my whole life, too We could keep at this, or we could get a drink. # For I can't help # Falling in love with you # I'll take the drink. K: This is really somethin'. DECKARD: The whole town was somethin'. One time. Forget your troubles, see a show, gamble a little. Win some money, lose some money. They made money seem like candy. You like whisky? I've got millions of bottles of whisky. Here. Bleeding. Is it real? I don't know. Ask him. Ya got a name? Officer KD6-3.7. That's not a name. That's a serial number. All right. Joe. What do you want, Joe? I wanna ask you some questions. Like what? Like what was her name, the mother of your child? What was she like? -You two live here together? -Too many questions. I had your job. I was good at it. It was simpler then. Why you makin' it complicated? Why don't you just answer the question? What question? I didn't figure you as one for bullshit. What's her name? Rachael. Her name was Rachael. What happened to the kid? (SIGHS) Who put it in the orphanage? Was it you? I was long gone by then. You didn't even meet your own kid? Why? Because that was the plan. I showed 'em how to scramble the records, cover their tracks. Everyone had a part. Mine was to leave. Then the Blackout came, paved over everything. Couldn't have found the child if I tried. -Did you want to? -Not really. -Why not? -Because we were being hunted. I didn't want our child found, taken apart, dissected. Sometimes, to love someone, you gotta be a stranger. To strangers. (COIN CLINKS) (JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING) # It's quarter to three # There's no one in the place # Except you and me # So, set 'em up, Joe # I got a little story # You ought to know # We're drinkin', my friend # To the end # Of a brief episode # Make it one for my baby # And one more for the road # (DOG PANTING) (WHIMPERS) (DEVICE BEEPING) (WALLACE JINGLE PLAYS) DECKARD: What'd you do? Who'd you bring? Huh? K: No one. Oh, yeah? AUTOMATED VOICE: Target locked. They know you're here. I came alone. (RUMBLING) (GROANS SOFTLY) (GROANING) (GRUNTING) Bad dog. (GRUNTS) Stop. I do hope you're satisfied with our product. -I love yo... -(SHATTERS) * (DEVICE BEEPING) (BEEPING INTENSIFIES) (BEEPING STOPS) (WATER DRIPPING) (BREATHING DEEPLY) (FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING) MARIETTE: Hey, there's someone who wants to meet you. You can trust us. You must want me to look up and to the left. MARIETTE: This is Freysa. She fought with Sapper on Calantha. K: I recognize you. Did you help him hide the child? Oh. I was there. I saw a miracle delivered. A perfect little face crying up at me. Mad as thunder. Were you with her? Rachael? FREYSA: I held her as she died. We hid the child and made a vow to keep our secret. That's why Sapper let you kill him. I knew that baby meant we are more than just slaves. If a baby can come from one of us, we are our own masters. More human than humans. FREYSA: A revolution is coming. And we're building an army. I want to free our people. If you want to be free, join us. Deckard, Sapper, you, me, our lives mean nothing next to a storm that's coming. Dying for the right cause is the most human thing we can do. You led Wallace to Deckard. You cannot allow Deckard to lead Wallace to me. You must kill Deckard. Deckard only wanted his baby to be safe. And she is. When the time comes, I will show her to the world, and she will lead our army. "She"? Of course. Rachael had a daughter. With my own eyes, I saw her come. I dressed her in blue when it was time for her to go. It was a boy that you hid. That is just a piece of the puzzle. You imagined it was you? Oh. You did. We all wish it was us. That's why we believe. ANA: Someone lived this, yes. DECKARD: I showed 'em how to scramble the records, cover their tracks. FREYSA: With my own eyes, I saw her come. I dressed her in blue when it was time for her to go. ANA: There's a bit of every artist in their work. (GROANING) (EXHALES) WALLACE: Always jumping, that one. Never a thought of what to do if it made land. All the courage in the world cannot alter fact. I have wanted to meet you for so very long. You are a wonder to me, Mr. Deckard. I had the lock. I found the key. Yet the pins do not align. The door remains locked. I need the specimen to reach it, Mr. Deckard. The child. I need the child. To teach them all to fly. "And God remembered Rachel, "heeded her and opened her womb." RACHAEL: Do you like our owl? DECKARD: It's artificial? RACHAEL: Of course it is. DECKARD: Must be expensive. RACHAEL: Very. I'm Rachael. DECKARD: Deckard. WALLACE: Is it the same now, as then, the moment you met her? All these years you looked back on that day, drunk on the memory of its perfection. How shiny her lips. How instant your connection. Did it never occur to you that's why you were summoned in the first place? Designed to do nothing short of fall for her right then and there. All to make that single perfect specimen. That is, if you were designed. Love or mathematical precision. Yes. No. (SIGHS) I know what's real. (SIGHING HEAVILY) It was very clever to keep yourself empty of information, and all it cost you was everything. But you can still help me. You had help in the hiding. Where did they go? I know you know something. Help me, and very, very good things can come to you. You don't have children, do you? Oh, I have millions. You think I have nothing to offer but pain. Only I know you love pain. Pain reminds you the joy you felt was real. More joy, then. (FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING) Do not be afraid. An angel made again. For you. RACHAEL: Did you miss me? Don't you love me? Her eyes were green. WALLACE: Off-world, I have everything I need to make you talk. You do not know what pain is yet. You will learn. (THUNDER RUMBLING) (WALLACE JINGLE PLAYS) JOI: Hello, handsome. What a day, hmm? You look lonely. I can fix that. You look like a good Joe. FREYSA: Dying for the right cause is the most human thing we can do. Because you've never seen a miracle. * AIR-TRAFFIC CONTROLLER: You're entering Los Angeles Airport restricted airspace. Confirm your identity. PILOT: Transport S-14-4-XD. Confirmed. PILOT 2: Base, this is 06 outbound departure... Where are we going? Home. AUTOMATED VOICE: Drive two down. Backup engaged. Warning. LUV: Can we make it? PILOT: We're too low. Take us back. Get us up. LUV: Open the door. (GUNSHOT) (BOTH GRUNTING) (LUV GRUNTS) I'm the best one. (GASPING) (PANTING) Off-world is waiting. (CHOKING) (GROANS) (YELLING) (GROWLING) Joe. Joe! Joe! You shoulda let me die out there. K: You did. You drowned out there. You're free to meet your daughter now. All the best memories are hers. Why? Who am I to you? Go meet your daughter. You okay? Just a moment. Beautiful, isn't it? Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air. www.able.co.nz Able 2019