"Are they on?" " introduce yourself." " I'm Frank." " How you doing?" " Don't answer that." " That's rhetorical." " Okay." " Let's get you up to speed." " This is a story about the future." " And the future can be scary." " What?" " Are you sure you wanna go with "scary"?" " I wanna go with scary." "  Okay." "  Okay." " The future can be scary." " environmental collapse... wonder and beauty..." "Could you please just stop interrupting?" " I will." " Just try to be a little more upbeat." " tell them what you like..." "I can't tell them anything if you keep interrupting me." " You're right." " Sorry." " As I was saying... we get closer and closer..." "I know." " Tell them about when..." "I can't tell them anything until I tell them about this." " can we please just start somewhere else?" " Fine." " Where would you like me to start?" " right?" " the future was... right?" "  Yeah." " start there." " the future was different." " World's Fair." " Don't forget your valuables and enjoy the future." " kiddo." " sir." "  May I help you?" " My name is John Francis Walker." " I'm here to win the $50." " Is that so?" " I took it apart because of the nitrogen compartment." " Seeing as how the bus ride was kind of bumpy and you know nitro." " I could've used a hydrogen peroxide-powered engine." " Bell Labs tested that with their Rocket Belt and I guess there were some issues and stuff." " It's a jet pack." " Obviously." " You made this yourself?" " what are you doing here?" " Did you or didn't you?" "  What?" "  Did you make this yourself?" " Yeah." " Why?" " I guess I got tired of waiting around for someone else to do it for me." " Does it work?" " Sure." " Yeah." " Mostly." " technically fly." " what would its purpose be?" " How would your jet pack make the world a better place?" " Can't it just be fun?" " please tell me you can do better than "fun." " Anything's possible." " I don't know what that means." " I'd believe anything's possible." " I'd be inspired." " Doesn't that make the world a better place?" " I suppose it would." " If it worked." " it does not." " it has no purpose at all." " Mr. Walker." "  But I can make it work!" " That's the spirit." " have fun." " Absolutely not." " no." " What makes you think you're gonna make this thing fly?" " I'm optimistic." "  You're wasting your time." "  I'm not!" "  Damn contraption." "  It's not a contraption!" "  It doesn't work." "  I can make it work." " you can't!" " I'm not giving up." " Don't turn around." " Be cool." " What did I just tell you?" "  Sorry." "  Stop talking." " Look over there." " Five o'clock." " on a clock?" " Where the five is." " That way." " I'm going with them." " then follow us." " Don't get spotted." " Who are you?" " Frank Walker." " Nice." " Do you like it?" " Travel the globe in Walt Disney's "it's a small world."" " A salute to UNICEF and children everywhere." " Excuse me." " It's the happiest cruise ever to set sail." " Sorry." " Excuse me." " you're gonna have to wait for the next boat." " There'll be another boat in just a minute." " Hello?" " Hello?" " Hello?" " Good afternoon." " Please step aboard the transport." " The site is active." " Please put on your head protection in order to prevent significant injury." " Injury"?" " Transport will commence in 10 seconds." " Wait!" " Wait!" "  Five..." " Wait!" "  Four..." " No!" " Three..." "Two..." "One... phases one and two took a..." "Hey!" " That's mine!" " Did you just fix it?" " Hey!" " Hey!" " There he is." " Hey!" " Hey!" " It works now." " what is this place?" " And then everything went to hell." " it did." " one second of blue skies and jet packs and hope..." "It's important." " They need to know the stakes." " I think they can figure out clocks counting down are bad." " you're doing fine." " I would absolutely love to hear you try." "  Really?" "  Really." " I am more qualified." " Are you?" " How so?" " I'm an optimist." " you filming?" "  It's video." "  I knew it!" "  Are you videoing?" " sweetie." " Casey." " That's Sirius." " That's Canopus." " That's Arcturus." " Rigil Kentaurus." " Betelgeuse." " Casey?" " Because I wanna go there." " But it's so far away." " It'll take a long time." " A real long time." " and there's nothing?" " What if there's everything?" " boy." "  What?" " Are you gonna go through your entire childhood?" " You started when you were a kid." " I'm just giving them context." " Just move it along." " Okay?" " They don't have all day." " Cool." " You got it." " Identify yourself!" " Nate!" " I will crush you." " You shouldn't sneak out." " you shouldn't still need a wubby." " Dad says it's okay to sleep with." " That's because he doesn't want you to grow up." " Were you at the platform again?" " What do you do out there?" " Are you trying to stop them from taking it down?" " That would make me a criminal." " And a pretty terrible role model to impressionable youth such as yourself." " I'd have to assume they believed even the teeniest of actions could change the future." " How can you be sure?" " Because I know how things work." " Why are they taking the platform down?" " Because it's hard to have ideas and easy to give up." " But you won't." " Right?" " Never." " Dad." " Heading to school." "  I made you lunch." "  Hey!" " Wrap it up." "  How did you do..." " You would have gotten it." " Eddie Newton." " What?" " All three cranes?" " Douglas." " Thanks for the call." " Bye." " Everything okay?" " the equipment over at Canaveral is down again." "  Weird." "  Really weird." " at least you get the day off.  so I will be back to work by noon." " That's fantastic." "  Case." "  Yeah?" " Nothing's gonna stop them from taking down that platform." " I'm out of a job." " There's nothing anyone can do about it." " It's inevitable." " then you'll find something else." " You're a NASA engineer." " With nothing to launch." "  There are two wolves." "  Case." " and now I'm telling you." " and they're always fighting." " One is darkness and despair." " The other is light and hope." " Which wolf wins?" " Case." " don't answer." " Whichever one you feed." " Good." " Eat." " Come on." " Mutually assured destruction." " any nuclear country or terrorist is capable of inflicting damage on a massive scale with weapons of..." "Environmental entropy." " The polar ice caps aren't waiting for us to decide if climate change is real." " intensifying weather patterns." " They're all punching our one-way ticket to... not perfect." " Orwell's 1984." " these futuristic novels are actually happening right now and they seem to be getting worse." " Miss Newton?" " Can we fix it?" " Sorry?" " I get things are bad." " But what are we doing to fix it?" " everybody." "  Newton?" "  Yeah." " You made bail." " Motorcycle is in impound." " You can pick up your personal effects over there." "  Newton?" "  Yeah." " All right." " All right.  one baseball cap.  and I don't know what this is." " Sign here." "  That's not mine." "  What's not yours?" " The pin." " I've never..." "No way." " Have I been here the whole time?" " I know." " No!" " I got it." " You have no idea of the strings I had to pull" "Casey." " This is not just vandalism." " All right?" "  It's NASA." " It's government property." "  Have you ever seen this before?" " are you?" " I am very upset with you!" " you're angry." " I understand." " But I just need you to look at it." " Does it look weird?" "  Don't touch it!" "  Why are you yelling at me?" " Dad." " It's dangerous." " Just pull over." " Pull over." " if you're on drugs..." "I'm not on drugs." " Just look." " I need you to be NASA Dad now." " New Frontier Dad." " Okay?" " All will be explained as soon as you touch this pin." " What is..." "It's not working?" " You're not seeing this?" " Stop it." " I don't know what's gotten into you." " Middle of the night..." "Dexter." " Totally swift." " idiots." " We're gonna be late for R and D." "The HoverRail will be arriving in one minute." "  Are you coming?" "  You can see me?" " We don't have all day." " Wait for us!" " Northbound line now departing." " Spaceport." " Wow!" " Look at the rings!" " Wow!" " Cool!" " Be sure to follow the procedures strictly." " You know how you need your sleep." " you're embarrassing me." "  Do you promise to transmit every day?" "  Even when you're out of range." " what's the big deal?" " We're only going 20 light-years out." " Spaceport." " please." " I'll be okay." " guys." " Over here." "  Hey!" "  Hey!" " please!" " I love you guys." " okay?" " Bye!" " Bye!" " Come on." " We saved a seat just for you." " Now you run out of power?" " wake up!" "  I didn't do it!" " Dad changed the password to his computer." " Do you know it?" " You smell like swamp." " Tell me the password and you can go back to sleep." " Your phone has Internet." "  My phone got soaked in a lagoon." "  Fine." " What are we looking for?" " Here we go." " Stop!" " That's it." " Extremely rare collectible pin commemorating the 1964 World's Fair." " Experts and purveyors of the most extensive selection of space-age collectibles in the world." " ancient." " Okay." " Give me their number." "  They don't have a number." "  They don't have a number?" " They have an address." " saw me leaving." " and I will call tomorrow." "  Can you do that for me?" "  Only if you tell me what's going on." " I think that I saw..." "That I went to the future." " too?" " Not yet." " Hello!" " Is Casey Newton home?" " No." " She ordered some cookies and I'm delivering them." "  You're a Girl Scout?" "  Of course I am." "  Why aren't you wearing a uniform?" "  It's at the cleaners." " Those are Oreos." " Could you please tell me when Casey will be back?" " She went camping with some friends." " She's gonna be gone for a couple of days." " Is that what you've told your parents?" "  Yeah." "  But it's not true." " Nathan." " It's not." " Don't ask me how I know your name." " I know it the same way I know that you are lying to me." " Are you from the future?" " You clearly understand." " So why aren't you telling me what I need to know?" " it stopped working." " She went to find another one." " where is she looking?" " one giant leap for mankind." " Hello?" " Sale this week." " Front three shelves.  70% off." " thanks." " I'm not here to buy anything." " I was hoping that you could tell me about this." " Hugo!" " Hugo!" " One second." " Welcome to Blast From The... dear." " you wouldn't need my help." " which is everything." " Pardon my wife." " She has no respect for showmanship." "  Hugo Gernsback." " How may I help you?" "  She has a pin." " She has a pin." " I saw that you were looking for one online..." " Where did you get it?" "  What can you tell me about it?" " I can't tell you anything about it unless you tell me who gave it to you." " I'm not going first." " it seems our business here is done." " It seems it is." " didn't you?" " When you touched it." " Something incredible." "  It's real?" "  Of course it is." " Don't ask me how." " These people have developed technologies we haven't even dreamed of yet." " Wait." " What people?" " Have you ever wondered what would happen decided to actually change it?" " But where?" " Where could they even do such a thing?  greed." " A secret place where they could build whatever they were crazy enough to imagine." " Plus Ultra" they call themselves." " is through contact with one of these." " Why did they make them?" " What are they for?" " Rumor has it" " they were about to go public." "  Yeah." " Share what they had built with the whole world." " that never happened." " Why not?" " young lady.  please trust us and tell me where'd you get it?" " I don't know." " honey?" " I kind of got arrested and it was in with my stuff." " I don't know how it got there." " What was that?" "  Tell us who gave it to you." " Please." "  No one gave it to me!" " sweetheart." " You know what?" " I think I'm gonna go now." " Thanks for your help." " 000 if you tell me where you acquired the pin." " I don't know!" " 000." "  Was it a girl?" " A little girl?" " I don't know what you guys are talking about." " Have a nice day." " Enjoy your freak out." " Tell us where she is and you will be spared." " right?" " Where's the girl?" " I don't..." "I don't know about..." "You will tell us about the girl." " I don't know any girl." " I told you..." " Where is the girl?" "  I don't know any girl!" " We have to go!" " Come on." " Now!" " but not for long!" "  What?" "  Listen to me." " The sphere is collapsing and you're in the line of fire." " We need to go or you will die." " I'm stuck!" "  I'm stuck!" "  But only temporarily." " I'll pull you clear." " Then stay behind me." " Ready?" " The girl." " Look out!" " We have to go." " They're about to self-destruct." " We have to go now!" " Crazy enough to imagine." " Crazy enough to imagine." " get up." " They'll be coming." " What?" " Who?" " I know." " Casey!" " How do you know my name?" " Just get in the car." " What just happened?" " Two AA units targeted you for extermination." " I saved your life." " They self-destructed." " Wait. " AAs"?" " Audio-Animatronics." "  They were robots?" "  No." " Advanced anthropomo..." "Sure." " Okay." " Robots." " wait." " Who are you?" " My name is Athena." " I'm the one who gave you the pin." " The pin?" " The pin!" " Yes." " And I do wish you hadn't run off before I had a chance to give you some rather necessary context." " Context?" " What are you even talking about?" " How are you driving a car?" " Who are you?" " I'm a cruder." " Re..." "I'm a recruton." " 60 seconds to self-destruct." " So sorry about that." "  You're one of them?" "  Obviously." " Where are you going?" " Stop!" " I'm trying to help you!" " my God!" " Hey!" " Hey!" " This isn't happening." " This isn't happening." " No way!" "  Let me out of this car!" "  Stop yelling!" "  Let me out now!" "  No!" " I will not!  and I am not about to let it go to waste." " What do you mean your last pin?" " that place I saw..." " It exists?" "  Of course it does." " it won't for much longer." " Why not?" " Because they built something they shouldn't have." " Built what?" " Do you want to keep asking me questions" " until someone arrives to murder us?" "  No." " Then which way do you want to go?" " Backwards or forwards?" "  And you can take me there?" "  I can." " I'm driving." " Okie-dokie." " You fellas are released." " Thanks." " boys." " Fire chief says we're clear to go in and poke around." " they were out for lunch and nobody was in there when she went boom." " Captain." " Secret Service." " Looks like you got yourself a doozy here." " where are they going?" " They're securing the premises." " but we're going to take it from here." " Dale." " I found this just outside the window." " You ever seen anything like it?" " What the hell?" " God almighty!" " Sale." " This week.  70 perce..." "Was it a girl?" " A little girl?" " Was it a girl?" " A little girl?" " son?" " sir." " I do not." " Was it a girl?" " A little girl?" " Contact Governor Nix." " Tell him we found the girl." " Veer left!" " Little more of a heads up next time." " here's an idea." " Why don't you just tell me where we're going?" " New York?" " Someone who can get us back in." " Hold on." " You said that you gave me your last pin." " How many other people did you give them to?" " Not important." " I'm not even your first choice." " I only found you a month ago when you started wantonly destroying government property." " Which happens to go on my search parameters for recruitment." " Not to mention you scored a 73 on the Feynman/Drummelberg scale." " 73?" " Is that good?" " Wait." " Hold on." " Recruitment for what?" " I'm not allowed to answer that." " Who's not allowing you?  and my Countermeasure Protocol will initiate." "  Okay." " And what does that mean?" "  I will shut down." "  You will not." "  Try me." " You said that they built something they shouldn't have." " Did something happen over there?" " Something bad?" " Son of a..." "Please don't answer." " Please don't answer." " you've reached Eddie Newton's cell phone." " Leave me a message and I will call you back." " Dad." " It's Casey." " but I'm not camping." " And I just don't like lying to you." " But I didn't know how to tell you the truth because... and..." "Okay." " My point is..." "I'm fine." " I will continue to be fine." " I'm not on drugs." " I haven't joined a cult." " I won't be gone long." " Dad." " my God!" " Are you okay?" " thank you." " I thought I broke you or something." " I should drive." " I know you have no reason to trust me." " But I've been looking for someone like you for a very long time.  pull over." " Why me?" " Because you're special." "  Yeah." " I'm special." "  You are.  what's his name?" " His name is Frank." " Frank Walker." " too." " Frank Walker." " what are you doing?" " Just great." " Where are your paw prints?" " That is cool." " you know." " Go away." " Didn't you see the dog?" " Yeah." " It's a hologram." " How did you do that in daylight?" "  It's pretty impressive." "  Who are you?" " What do you want?" " right?" " and I want you to take me there." " Take you where?" " To the place I saw when I touched this." " Where'd you get this?" " A little girl." " Athena." " Where is she?" " She ditched me here." " Of course she did." " go back." " I want you to take me there." " What I saw..." "What you saw is gone." " it doesn't exist anymore." " No." " I feel like I have to go." " Like I'm supposed to go." " Why?" " Because they're saving a seat on the rocket ship just for you?" " What you saw was a commercial that was recorded decades ago." " It was an invitation that never went out because the damn party got canceled." " You are not supposed to do anything." " You've been manipulated to feel like you're part of something incredible." " Like you were special." " But you weren't." " You're not." " So that's a no?" " Son of a..." "You little..." "I can call the cops anytime." " Anytime!" " You have..." "I'm giving you five seconds..." "I am not leaving!" " Either tell me how to get there or kill me!" " that's exactly what I'll do!" " What are you doing?" " I'm touching things!" " Open this door now!" " I mean it." " I'll knock you out." " what's this doohickey with the trombone slidey thing?" " Leave that alone." " I'm serious!" "  Will you take me there?" "  No!" " Then you're not serious!" " Come on." " You didn't think that was funny?" " You're recording this?" " have it for posterity." " I laughed." " You smiled." " A smile's not a laugh." " Everyone laughs." " It's a biological need." " it isn't." " Sleep is a biological need." " either." " I'm gonna make you laugh." " I'm not gonna stop trying." " Maybe you should." " What?" " Stop trying." " Why?" " Must we record this?" "  Get out!" "  Wait a second." " What is that?" " Is that a countdown?" " I am not leaving." " I deserve to know what's going on around here." " I deserve some answers." "  Answers to what?" "  I know that you were there." " You don't know anything." " How do you ever leave a place like that?" " Because they threw me out!" " They threw me out and they locked every door back in." " Was it because you built that something that you shouldn't have?" " Who told you that?" " And is that it?" " The "something"?  would you wanna know?" "  How would you know?" "  Let's just say I did." " that's not the point." " Then what is your basis for knowing?" "  It's a hypothetical." "  It's a stupid hypothetical." " Just use your imagination." " All right?" "  All right." "  Okay." " Let's accept that there is a world the exact time of your death." " you want me to tell you or not?" " of course I would." " Who wouldn't?" " But what if accepting my death is what causes it?" " So the answer is yes." " I would want you to tell me." "  But I wouldn't believe you." "  You have to believe me." " make our own destiny and stuff?" " What?" " kid?" " Is that bad?" " Hell." " Hell!" "  They followed you here?" "  What?" " Who?" " Robots." " I've never seen them before." " John Francis Walker." " You have been permitted to live based upon your agreed non-intervention." " You are now harboring a fugitive element." " Release her to our custody or be extinguished." " You have one minute to comply." "  Thanks." "  Don't thank me yet." " Wait." " Come on!" " Let's go!  this unit has been authorized to extinguish your life." " Okay." " Okay." " that's enough." " That's enough!" " Come on." " Close the door." " Who the hell is Governor Nix?" " Let's go." " Come on." " Get in." " How is this a good idea?" " kid." " You were actually prepared for that?" "  My hat." "  Leave it." " no." " I can't go without it." " It's my dad's." " Now I get it." " Too smart for your own good." " never supported you." " right?" " No." " My dad is amazing." " Wait a second." " are we?" " Why don't we just get you to your amazing dad and pretend this never happened?" " Hop on." " it's not." " it's not." " you're not helping." " You..." "Get down." " Now." " Wait." " Frank." " Are you going to shoot me?" "  I'm deciding." "  Could you decide in the truck?" " Because we really should get going." "  Wait." "  Why?" " So more robots can show up?" " She's one of them." " I know." " Are you coming or not?" " Move over." "  Frank..." " Not yet." " What are you thinking?" " Why would you drag her into this?" " I didn't drag her into anything." " I gave her a pin." " She did the rest." " Just like you." " Don't even." " Where did you even find the pin?" " I was there." " They destroyed 'em." " Not all of them." " I made it out with nearly a dozen." " So you give one to a teenager." " I got a 73 on the Feinberg/Dusseldorf scale or whatever." " You got a 73?" " That's not possible." " He's jealous because he scored a 41." " You know what?" " I was 11." " I was 11!" " don't touch that!" " This is a one-kiloton detonation." " It is not a toy." " Do not mess with my stuff." "  You got it?" "  Sorry!" " you know." " I wasted years on other potential candidates." " Potential candidates?" " For what?" " That's beautiful." " don't you?" " Do not ask her any more questions." " She's gonna do her countermeasure shutdown thing." " What countermeasure shutdown thing?" " Did you tell her you had a countermeasure shutdown thing?" "  She was annoying me." "  You lied?" " kid.  she's leading it to your house to kill you." " but time is running out and you needed motivation." " Motivation for what?" " Frank." "  Back over there?" " we need to go back over." " Good." " Great." " That's just great." " I got stung by a bee." " Let's jump on the hive." " That's a terrible analogy." " That's a fantastic analogy." " What do you know about analogies?" " you're impossible to talk to when you're like this." " I am like this because you derailed my life." " Again." " it's not personal." " It's just programming." " We're here!" " Where are you going?" " isn't it?" " We need to get to The Spectacle." "  Spectacle?" "  Hey." " Are you insane?" " They know that you sent her to me." " They're gonna be waiting for us." " Fine." " Give me the Edison tube and we'll go without you." "  I don't have the Edison tube." "  It's in your bag." " I have x-ray vision." "  When did you get x-ray vision?" "  She's full of surprises." " I know all about her surprises." " Chief among them is this." " She doesn't care about you.  it's all just software." " It's ones and zeroes." " That's it." " you're on your own." "  What happened to you two?" "  He thinks I hurt him." " you hurt a dumb kid that was stupid enough to fall..." "Frank Walker." " But you were never dumb." " and..." "I'm not giving you anything." " I'm..." "All right." " You want in?" " I'll bring you in." " Why not?" " It's better than waiting around here and getting etcetera." "  That's the spirit." " " Etcetera"?" " What's the "etcetera"?" "  What kind of cables are these?" "  The kind that transmit people." " People?" " Like us?" " like a miniature teleport..." " Do I have to explain everything?" " Can't you just be amazed and move on?" " This is all wired to the dish up there." " Are you..." "Are you using satellite?" " I know how things work." " zippity-doo for you." " tight." "  Why?" " Because justice is blind." " kid." " You want me to put this over my head?" " If this takes off my eyebrows... tilt your head back." " What is that?" " It's powder." " Are we at van 't Hoff?" " Good to go!" " Good." " You set it for the Tower?" " There is still a receiver there?" "  Last I checked." "  How long ago was that?" " 25 years ago." " Roughly." " too?" " guys." " Killer robots." " All right." " and really loud." " You're gonna lose 90% of your blood sugar in 1/100th of a second and you're gonna wish you were dead." " But then it'll be over." " Don't pee on us." " This sounds spectacular." " Why now?" " Why her?" " Because she hasn't given up." " You think she can fix it." " What makes you say that?" " Athena?" " I have no idea." " Let's go find out." " Is it..." "Is this normal?" " Thirsty." " Dying." " I think I'm dying." "  You're not dying!" "  I'm dying." " There's Coke in the fridge." " Help yourself." " We have no idea how many are here but we're damn sure they know we're coming." " we move quickly." " You follow me." " No questions." " Got it?" " Got it." " Excuse me." "  We're in Paris?" "  Would you stop being so amazed?" "  I thought you wanted me to be amazed." "  I want you to stop yammer..." " Tower's closing." "  Hell." " Come on.  but they may not have your facial recognition profile uploaded yet." " " May not"?" "  May not." " you tap him on the neck." " it knocks him right out." "  And if it's a robot?" "  Hey!" "  You'll just piss it off." " Fantastic." " She's got guts." " You gotta give her that." " you know..." "Human!" " The French hated this thing when Eiffel first unveiled it at the Paris World's Fair." " They thought it was an eyesore." " though." " It wasn't meant to be a monument." " It was meant to find another world." " Les Quatre Premiers." " Plus Ultra's First Four." " They were a part of all this?" " and Mr. Edison." " They designed this antenna that we're inside." " what?" " The Eiffel Tower is an antenna?" " you're gonna interrupt me?" " Yes." " Tesla designed the antenna to observe every kind of frequency out there." " you name it." " And they found exactly what they were looking for.  because these two hate each other." "  Frank..." " Because of alternating..." "Stay on topic." " well..." "There were always rumors of a secret entrance the Four kept just for themselves." " A one-way ticket in case of emergencies." " The Spectacle." " kid." " It's a rocket." " They're coming." " All right." " Buckle up!" "  What'd he say?" "  Pretty much what you'd expect." " Tell him to hang on." " Why are we going back?" " We're not." " We're going through to another dimension." " So we blasted into outer space just to get a running start?" " This part may get a little weird." " Casey." " Wake up." " Casey." "  Casey." " Wake up." "  We're here." " Now what?" " You tell me." "  I tell you?" " This was your idea." "  I don't have ideas." " I just find the people who do." "  So there's no plan?" "  There's a plan." " You just haven't come up with it yet." " But you should do that soon." " That's just terrific." " hide this." " Absolutely." " Wait." " Is that the one-kiloton detonation thingy you told me not to play with?" " it's our insurance policy." " There's a good chance they're gonna try to kill us right out of the gate." " So we're just gonna stand here?" " you wanted to see Tomorrowland." " Here it comes." " Take the bag." "  Frank." "  David." " You look well." " Age becomes you." " Thanks." " You should try it." " I don't know." " I think I'll just keep drinking my shake every morning." "  Comes in chocolate now." "  Yum." " Athena." " I started to think you were never coming home." " where have you been?" " Doing my job." " Your job?" " I'm sorry." " Were we not clear when we suspended your recruitment protocols?" " I got that sense when you called me "bloody obsolete and tried to disassemble me." " you've certainly caused quite a commotion by launching an antique rocket ship out of the Eiffel Tower.  we'd be working overtime to convince everyone it was just an elaborate hoax." " does it?" " Why doesn't it matter?" " And who might you be?" " I'm Casey." " Newton." " And who might you be?" " David Nix." " Pleasure.  but as we were fairly clear about the terms of your exile I have to ask what the hell are you doing here?" " I think she can fix it." "  I'm sorry." "  Her." " David." "  Wait." " What?" " I've been pirating your signal." " I can see it there." " And it flickered." " David." " Impossible." " You don't believe me?" " Let's go find out right now." " Miss Newton." " He thinks you could fix the world." " Is that like a portal to Earth?" " No." " It is a bridgeway to Earth." " Frank." " isn't it?" " it's something." " Don't worry about the light show." " It's perfectly safe." " Am I supposed to do something?" " No... could you be a bit more specific?" " Because fixing the world sounds a little..." "Just be yourself." " Gotcha." " Flashes of the future." "  What are those?" "  Flashes of future." " This is us a few seconds from now.  a particle that moves significantly faster than light." " We discovered them almost 40 years ago." " Your physicists are still arguing over whether they exist." " dear." " Too late." " dear." " Too late." " on with the show." " We've enhanced the interface significantly but it still functions on your original algorithm." " Frank?" " Show me." " Pick a place." "  What?" "  A location anywhere in the world." " Pick one." " Canaveral." " Cape Canaveral." " easy." " The interface is oriented from your hands to the center of the Earth." " yeah." " I got it." " You trained her obviously." " I just met her yesterday." " She knows how things work." " and now I'm telling you." " How is this possible?" " We are millions of exponential deviances." " Away from the dimension you call home." " Frank had the novel idea of building this machine so that we could keep in touch." " This is three days ago." " Relatively." " That's space/time humor.  once we harness them..." "You can see backwards in time." " Not just backwards." " You're kidding." " No." " What happened?" " Keep going." " Just a little further." " That's enough." " kid." " That's my house.  but I'm afraid the world is ending." " and it is coming." " When?" " This is 58 days from now." " 58 days?" " But whatever caused this could happen any time after the static starts." " It could be a month." " It could be sooner." " Frank?" " I know what I saw." " So why aren't you telling anyone?" " The whole planet is gonna die and you're just sitting here?" " We're not gonna die." " not ours." " We'll be perfectly fine here." " Then why don't you let people in?" " David." "  Frank." " and you still don't understand." " These people are driven by savagery.  then that would happen here to us." " Then nothing would survive." " But it hasn't happened yet!" " it has happened." " You just haven't accepted it." " I don't accept it!" " Did you see that?" " Did you see that?" " I know that you saw that." " That means that there is a chance." " There's at least a chance... don't you think?" "  What happened?" "  You're being deported." " Again." " that's Nix for you." " No new ideas." " 000 variable in the Inevitability wasn't convincing enough to change his mind." " Be gentle." " You okay?" " you'd think somewhere in the zillions that stuff's not really the issue because our future-predicting machine says we're all gonna die." " We did sort of hint at it." " This place has nothing to do with hope." " It's the opposite of hope." "  Come on." " Don't say that." "  Why not?" " You said it." " No wonder you gave up." " That's before I knew about you." " you really..." "You really are special." " Why do you people keep saying that to me?" " I'm not!" " Why'd you even give me this?" " You showed me a place that was amazing and incredible and it was a lie.  you should really make sure that it's the truth." " Because you can't do that." " You can't just zap..." "What?" " Zap an idea into people's heads." " You were pirating the signal." "  How?" "  What?" " your doomsday room." " You were boosting the feed from that Monitor thing." "  How did you do that?" "  No big deal." " a ham radio could pick it up." " It's just a matter of finding the right frequency..." "You grabbed a signal from another dimension." " From a machine here." " That means it's transmitting there." " What if it's not just predicting the future?" " It's broadcasting it." " When I touched this thing it felt like anything was possible." " So then why can't the opposite happen?" " What if The Monitor is just a giant pin?  it makes you think negative and it..." "And it's convincing the whole world to feed the wrong wolf." " We need to turn that thing off." " It's time to go home." " David." " David." "  It's uninhabited and uncharted." "  Listen to me." " But it looks like a lovely place to spend your last days." " David..." "The Monitor is acting as an antenna." " It isn't just receiving tachyons." " It is taking a possible future and... like a feedback loop." " It's a self-fulfilling prophecy that's coming from right there.  it's giving them the idea over and over again until they just accept it!" " and we're the ones that lit the fuse." " We still have 58 days to try and change things." " But nothing will work as long as that thing is still on." " I'm gonna assume that your knowledge of tachyonic fusion is a little sketchy." " Shutting it down is impossible." " There is no off." " I'm telling you what it's doing." " Why don't you care?" " Because he's the one that's doing it." " Right?" " Let's imagine.  what would you do with that information?" " You would go to..." "Who?" " Politicians?" " Captains of industry?" " And how would you convince them?" " With data?" " Facts?" " Good luck." " The only facts they won't challenge are the ones that keep the wheels greased and the dollars rolling in." " But what if..." "What if there was a way of skipping the middleman and putting the critical news directly into everyone's head?" " The probability of widespread annihilation kept going up." " The only way to stop it was to show it." " To scare people straight." " Because what reasonable human being wouldn't be galvanized by the potential destruction of everything they have ever known or loved?" " I would show its collapse." " But how do you think this vision was received?" " How do you think people responded to the prospect of imminent doom?" " like a chocolate éclair." " they repackaged it." " movies." " The entire world wholeheartedly embraced the apocalypse and sprinted towards it with gleeful abandon." " your Earth was crumbling all around you." " You've got simultaneous epidemics of obesity and starvation." " Explain that one." " Bees and butterflies start to disappear." " The glaciers melt." " Algae blooms all around you.  and you won't take the hint!" " there is the possibility of a better future." " But you people won't believe it.  you won't do what is necessary to make it a reality." " and you resign yourselves to it.  because that future doesn't ask anything of you today." " we warned the Titanic." " full steam ahead." " Why?" " Because you want to sink." " You gave up." " That's not The Monitor's fault." " That's yours." " Put them through." " Frank." " It was genuinely nice to see you again." "  What are you doing?" "  Not giving up." " Look out!" "  Get the thing!" "  What thing?" " The thing I gave you when we first got here!" " Arm it!" " Get on the platform!" " Casey!" " The bomb!" " Get on the platform!" "  Now what?" "  Arm it!" " How?" " Casey!" " The bomb!" " Where is the bomb?" " One minute to detonation." " 45 seconds." " Athena!" " The bomb." " What do I do?" " How do I turn it off?" " 30 seconds." " You can't." " This is not funny!" " get out of there!" " It's gonna blow!" " get out!" " Get out of there!" "  Four." " Three." "  Close the portal!" "  Two." " One." "  Close the portal!" "  Are you all right?" "  The bomb's gone." "  Can you stand?" "  Yeah." " Frank!" " No." " The bomb's gone." "  Can you stand?" "  Yeah." " Frank!" "  What happened?" " Is she okay?" "  I need to get her to a repair module." " Frank!" " No one's going to repair me." " Not in time." " I need to tell you something now." " Darn." " I'm shutting down." " I'm shutting down." " I'm going to lose sync." " Don't look at me like that." " it's not failure." "  I know." " There are things I need to tell you before the final..." "Before the automated program kicks in." " I'm a machine." " I never thought that was bad until I saw your face when you found out I was." " I always knew." " you didn't." " Systems failing." " Activating last thoughts saved for Frank Walker." " Log 15:" "September 1965." " Frank Walker is looking at me in a manner that is difficult to recognize." " It seems imperative to explain to him that I am an Audio-Animatronic..." "Athena..." "But I am concerned that he may be adversely affected when he finds out that I am not human." " He has potential." " I don't want to damage it." " He needs someone to believe in him." " And I am fulfilling that need." " He is my top recruit." " October 1965." " I'm having unusual thoughts towards Frank Walker." " I suspect a flaw in my empathy interface." " I am thinking I should report it." " But I haven't." " I cannot explain why." " April 1984." " Frank Walker has been banished by Governor Nix." " He says he has lost hope and he holds me responsible for having given it to him in the first place." " I do not understand this." " He says I never will because I do not feel anger or disappointment." " Or love." " End recording." " I was designed to find dreamers." " I found you." " And lost you." " Till I found her." " Casey." " Dreamers need to stick together." " It's not programming." " It's personal." " The Monitor." " yet." " There isn't much time." " use it." " Frank." " Help get it right this time." " I thought you can't have ideas." " what do you know?" " What do you know?" " Systems failing." "  Frank?" "  Yeah?" " Do you want to know why you could never make me laugh?" " Why?" " Because you're not funny." " You can let me go now." " Frank." " Athena." " Bollocks." " Now what?" " You're asking me?" " kid." " Yeah." " You think it will work?" " I guess we have to make it work." " we're making it work." " get the door back open." " Couldn't hurt to get a few experienced engineers over here." " Next..." "Put the party back on." " And print out some new invitations." " Which brings us to why we're here today." " it was all supposed to be over." " We shouldn't even be here." " But we are." " evil building that's telling everybody that the world's gonna end." " What is hard is figuring out what to build in its place." " we can't do it alone." " We're gonna need all of you." " may I ask a question?" "  Sure.  are a bit undefined." " please?  you wanna tell our new recruiters what they're looking for?" " Dreamers." " We are looking for dreamers." " Anyone who will feed the right wolf." " I once told your predecessor that she was nothing but a combination of ones and zeroes." " I was wrong." " She was much more than that." " too." " go out there and do what she would have done." " Find the ones who haven't given up." " They're the future."