It all starts with something.
Magnificent.
A flower.
Just a flower.
Then. A honey bee.
Very fragile.
Very complicated.
Bee.
Gathers pollen.
Deposited. Another flower stigma.
It's like sex, but cleaner.
Nobody gets hurt.
our food is pollinated this way.
You understand the scope of that?
That's how vital bees are, Don.
They're dying.
Why?
It's like we talked about, cuz, remember?
CCD is like a endemic.
Workers deserve to clean.
So she's all alone with her young, and the colony wastes away.
But why did they leave her?
Well, people claim it's pesticides or habitat loss, or some people think the
world government and their agro -corporate overlords bioengineered CCD
manipulate food supplies.
But I knew there had to be a larger organizing principle at work.
So I studied.
I observed. I searched in the ground and in the stars
until I found it.
Choking us out.
One, two.
We are not steering the ship, Don.
Oh, good job.
They are.
And now it's up to you and me to stop them.
Training is for a reason, Don.
It's going to try and dominate us, but we're not going to let it, are we?
You mean she'll try to hurt us?
Oh, yes, Don. It's highly dangerous.
So we have to prepare our bodies and our brains.
Come on! Come on! Come on!
Oh, and don't forget they track it remotely.
And they'll try and track us too.
We will end your brain box every chance it gets, so we have to fortify that
shit.
Okay.
I'll try.
You hear that, though?
Donnie?
In your voice, how they fucked your confidence?
I'm sorry, Teddy.
No.
Donnie? Look at me.
Don't you ever apologize. Ever. None of this is your fault.
Okay?
Thanks.
It won't play fair.
So we have to be better.
How can you tell them apart?
We have to know where to look.
There's signs.
What about these people?
No.
Well, they're fine.
I mean, they're not fine, fine, but hollow.
You know, like the rest of us. Harmless.
Hopeless.
But that's the way they planned it.
To make us the same as the bees.
A dead colony, atomized in a... trillion directions with no way
home again.
Morning, Miss Willis. Good morning.
Have a good day.
What does the claim do?
The same.
Mitigation.
Is it all good?
What if someone finds out about what we're doing?
They won't. No one on earth gives a single fuck about us.
So until the day comes, we clear the psychic cache, okay?
No distractions.
No gaming, no vape, no whacking it.
No screens whatsoever except for research.
You promise, Don?
I know this is a lot, but I want you with me on this. I need you, Don.
I know you're actually smart and brave, and no one else sees it but
me.
Now you're the smart one.
The brains of this operation really.
What? Is something wrong?
I just... I don't think I can do this.
Hey.
Come here.
Don't. No.
No.
I love you, cussy.
I love you too, man.
You're my best friend in the whole world.
My only friend.
And I'm doing this to save you most of all.
I won't let anyone hurt you, okay?
Okay? Okay. Never.
Yeah.
Mitroxyprogesterone acetate.
It's a progestin -type hormonal med.
Chemical castration.
Okay?
Okay.
In order for us to hit maximum focus, we have to clear our heads of all
psychic compulsions. Okay?
What does that mean?
Trust me, I've done a shit ton of research on this. The more of that fuck
we have jamming up our neurons, the bigger advantage it will have over us.
Are you sure?
Yes, Donnie, I'm sure.
It's really important, Don.
I just wanted to be with someone someday.
But you've got to believe me, I figured it out.
The part of your brain that distracts you,
Part of your brain that makes you sad. It's all connected to the biological
imperative. These synapses firing off on procreation and seed
spread and monogamy.
Like all these fucking pain traps.
It's all neurons, dude.
You just have to harness them.
You kill the urges.
Like I have, you'll be your own master.
No one can fuck with you. You'll be totally free.
Don't you want to be free?
Yes.
So, you ready?
Yeah.
Let's do this.
Yeah. Okay, so...
Lean over the chair and talk to me. It'll distract you.
How are you, Teddy?
I'm doing great, man. How are you?
I'm doing good.
So, you excited to be free?
Yeah. What does free feel like to you?
I guess it feels like when we were little, before things got
bad, when everyone was still here.
All we've lost, all these years, all the shit that's been done to us, we're
studying that shit right again.
Not even ourselves.
Good morning, Corey. Good morning, Michelle.
I believe every company should strive to form a diverse table.
If the people on your team are from diverse backgrounds, they'll find new
creative solutions to problems rather than just iterating.
We need to find the next generation of diverse engineers, diverse biologists,
diverse doctors, because it's not just diverse employees, it's diverse
It's about using our corporate resources to empower people of different skills
and identities.
Holy fucking fucker. Jesus Christ. Every time. What is it? Skills and
identities. A new generation of talent.
Okay, let's read that.
It's too many diverses, Chris.
I'm going diverse, diverse, diverse. Like a fucking metronome. Well, it is
diversity training.
But it's too many, Chris.
Can we try to diversify the language a little bit?
No, sure.
Let's go again.
Okay, so that's it then. You just have the investor call with Sarah and the VC
with Wieden and Kennedy at 9 that you can do remote.
Thank you, Corey.
The 5 .30 thing.
Uh -huh. Look, I know you sent the email already, but I need you to let everyone
know that they are free to leave at 5 .30 from now on starting today. Okay?
So do it in the way that's, you know, what we talked about.
We need to send a message that we have a new culture here now where people
should, yes, of course, feel free to leave at 5 .30 and be with their
No one is going to be overworked like in the past.
No more unpleasant incidents.
But, of course, it's not compulsory.
And obviously, if people still have work to do, they should absolutely stay and
continue to work.
But it's not strictly enforced.
Although, we still do want to be quoted.
So if we can do that with no pressure, just remembering, you know, we are
running a business here, so let your content guide you kind of thing.
Yeah? Good?
I'll definitely let them know.
Great.
New era!
Thank you, Corey.
free to leave early unless you're busy or you have things to do but feel free
you can.
Up to you.
Your call.
Ah!
Hey, look at this.
You really have to hurry, bud.
I know, I'm sorry. You get as quick as you can.
It's like GPS, remember?
If its hair is still attached, it can track us remotely, so we want to go as
quick as we can.
Okay.
Is it working?
Not much is coming off.
You really got to run it through harder.
What if I cut her?
Don't! Do it harder, you won't cut her.
Okay.
Man, I feel good, don't you?
I guess.
You were amazing, Cuts.
I was?
Oh, yeah.
Fucking Alpha King shit.
Thanks.
Man, I knew you could do it. Sure enough.
Fucking crushed it.
Incredible.
What is?
Just the...
D2.
The best I've seen.
How can you tell she's an alien?
Well, the signs are obvious.
You did a hell of a job on it, but the tells are there.
Narrow feet.
Thin cuticles.
Slight overbite.
Semi -obtruding earlobes.
See?
High hair density.
You won't notice unless you know what you're looking for.
Yes, I can see it.
It's like if you don't cook steaks a lot, you won't know when it's cooked
rare. But if you cook steaks all the time, you just know.
You don't even have to cut into it. You just know.
Yes. Hey, bro.
Why are we doing this?
Is she itching?
No, Don, it's not itchy.
Its genetic structure is the same as ours.
But its nervous system is different.
Antihistamine reacts to the neurotransmitters in its nervous system
it.
We're just leveling the playing field.
It's not torture. Torture is what it's done to us.
I thought it should wear off soon.
Should we get dressed?
Okay.
Is
that
too tight?
No, man.
This is my dad's shit.
He left it behind for a reason so that it could be put to good use.
Everything's for a reason, Tom.
It's too tight.
I look stupid.
No, you don't. You look fine, honestly.
You look fine.
Anyway, that's what I'm gonna do. Call the fashion police and arrest you? This
isn't about her.
It is not in control anymore.
We are.
Besides, I'll be doing most of the talking anyway.
In fact, maybe don't say much.
You don't want to have to say much.
Okay.
Like, don't talk at all, maybe.
Oh.
Are you conscious?
I can only perceive if you're fully conscious.
What?
Yes, greetings.
This is my home.
What?
This is a hospital.
No, this is not a hospital.
Fuck it, I'm just kind of tired.
Welcome to the headquarters of the human resistance.
Despite our general suspicion and disavow of all extant governing bodies,
despite the fact that you, as an Andromedan, are not subject to the human
guidelines detailed in Geneva Conventions, we nevertheless endeavor to
those guidelines out of the humanist principle to which they aspire.
What is happening?
I'm explaining to you that I would like to keep all of this very above board
and... Civilized so where's my hair?
Your hair has been destroyed.
You saved up my hair. Yes, we've shaved off your hair Why have you shaved off my
hair? To prevent you from contacting your ship My ship?
Your ship What ship?
Your mother ship Okay, full disclosure
I've also applied a thin layer of antihistamine cream to your skin.
Which we will need to reapply every day for full effectiveness. Listen to me.
I'm listening.
Right.
Here's what's going to happen.
And I want to be clear, I'm not threatening you.
Or you.
But the following is my best guess at how the next 48 hours are likely to
transpire.
The police and sooner or later the FBI will begin a statewide manhunt using all
of the methods at their disposal and the combined resources of neighboring
jurisdictions. My company is a key job creator and economic engine of the
region. I am crucial.
Think of it like you abducted the governor, but worse.
That's the level of bureaucratic urgency you're contending with here. In all
humility, I can say that.
I'm also a high -profile female corporate executive. Does that add a
you know, politicized optics to this, I would say absolutely.
I would say that's a tremendous factor for you to consider here.
I don't make the rules and I don't enforce anything and I am not in charge
the situation in this room.
You are.
But you are not in charge of what is happening out there. And what is
out there is a rapid cross -coordination of law enforcement and digital media,
which is all leading quite inevitably to your imprisonment and very likely
worse.
If I can be right.
I'm not privy to what their methods might be. Under extreme duress. Or
for that matter.
But I can assure you that there is no possible scenario where you benefit from
this incident unless you cooperate with me.
Right now.
And negotiate a deal that's fair and advantageous to us both.
okay wow that was really good that was
really good my pulse is racing right now um
fuck you got a real human response out of me there which is impressive
given your cellular composition and all it's the truth well no it's not the
truth nothing you say is true objective human truth has no value in Andromedan
cognition.
Let's just unpack the problem here.
Unpack? Wow, heady shit. Sure. Let's unpack the old fact back, shall we? You
a high -ranking official in the Royal Andromedan Court.
And you've aided your species in the techno -enslavement and the agro
disintegration of planet Earth, okay? And we need you.
To bring us to your mothership on the night of the lunar eclipse.
To broker a sit -down with your royal superiors.
How's that? Fucking unpacked enough for you?
I hear where you're coming from. I do.
And I respectfully disagree.
On which part?
Primarily, I'm not an alien.
You are. I've done thermal imaging on your face. There's Andromedan code all
over your Instagram.
You're barely even hiding it.
I mean, look at you.
I'm supposed to believe you're a 45 -year -old woman?
Human woman?
I mean, I follow a very strict reverse aging diet and therapy program.
It's very expensive, as you can imagine, but I'm not an alien.
Well, there's really no time for this. You are. I'm not.
To give you the night?
To give your statement?
My statement?
That you will give to your emperor?
To grant us passage to your ship and negotiate your species withdrawal from
planet Earth.
Right. Could we have a dialogue about this, please? Because what you're asking
me to do is not quite clear to me. I think it is.
And I want you to know this is really difficult for me as
well.
You killed my family.
You killed my community. You killed my coworkers.
You killed the bees.
So given that, you should really appreciate how super professional I'm
right now by not gutting you.
So, your sustenance.
and waste disposal will be attended to in the morning.
I have gathered adequate data on what type of sleep you require, if any, but
should try and get some, okay?
I'm very sorry.
I think that we maybe got off on the wrong foot, and I would love to keep the
conversation going, please.
Excuse me, please?
Dawn? Come on.
Come on. Let's keep talking.
Please?
Don't. Don't. Don't.
See ya.
I see it as a human woman, you know.
It's not a person named Michelle Fuller. It's the Fuller humanoid. That's all it
is.
Even if it was human and it's not, it's still evil.
Pure corporate evil.
It's killing our planet, cuz he was the lead executive on the neonicotinoid
-linked honeybee death. It only knows cruelty.
Is it an alien?
Yes.
It knows you're watching right now, too.
It's trying to gain your sympathy.
That pretty way that you feel right now, that's how it wants you to feel.
It's mastered the art of emotional manipulation.
I'm sorry.
I promised I won't mess this up, Teddy.
Don't apologize. Remember.
We just stick to the plan.
We have four days until the lunar eclipse when the Andromedan ship can
undetected. Yeah?
Yeah. So, we need the four humanoid to help us make contact so we can
fight for our self -worth.
For material existence, Don.
You know, I wish I could fix everything that's been done to you.
This is not about me, Don.
This is about everyone.
And one day very soon, you'll see.
And the world will see you as you truly are.
A hero.
That's why we stick to... We stick to
the plan.
You're listening.
fucking know what's in it i just eat the poison they give me but i know
they hide shit in there to program my cells
my blood see what the plan is okay
they sell me the sickness and they sell me the cure and it's money on both sides
from the mind control um
Industry.
Okay?
Get it?
But I'll do it for you.
You know, if it helps.
If it makes me not like me.
Like I am, you know? Like, weak.
Your slob, cunt mom will do it for you, baby.
Just don't let them get you, too.
Go faster. This isn't the spa.
Okay.
How are you there? You alright?
Uh, yeah, I'm fine.
How are you?
I'm good.
Off to work then, or... Huh?
I'm sorry, man. I know you're like this fucking guy, right? No, no.
No, it's alright. It's just, you know, we haven't had a chance to catch up in a
while, cause, you know, all this shit, and, uh, yeah.
Just wanted to check up on you.
Casey, I'm good. What's up?
Nothing's up, man. I just... I know I wasn't always the best babysitter back
the day, but I do want you to be okay.
You still up there with Don?
Yep.
Great. Well, I think about you sometimes. Not in a weird way, just...
I'm a different guy now. I've grown up. So if you ever need help with anything,
just...
I'm good.
I just got to get to work.
Maybe I'll stop by sometime?
Yeah, I mean, I'm super busy right now.
Crazy busy.
Right. But, yeah, maybe sometime later.
Later, yeah.
All right.
Cool. See ya.
Take it easy.
See ya, Teddy.
wrong, Tina?
Freaking hand is still killing me.
Christ. Did you file that shit with OSHA yet? I looked into it, but I don't
think it's a violation.
Tina, their machinery cut you and you get punished for missing quotas. That's
violation.
Fucking demons.
I just don't want any trouble.
Don't you worry. One day soon, it's all going to change.
You're not going to get away with this shit in the end, okay?
I promise you that.
On Monday afternoon, following what co -workers described as a routine workday,
Oxalis Biomedical's CEO, Michelle Fuller...
Oh, yeah. What up, Carlos? I brought some fresh honey in. Oh,
great. Thank you, Teddy. Yeah.
State police are not
ruling out the possibility that Fuller is being held for ransom.
Hey, does she eat?
No. Bedpan?
No.
Maybe she's too scared to go.
No, she's not too scared to go.
It's trying to pity trap our asses. It's a ploy.
We're not going to let it pity trap us, are we?
No.
Just sit over there.
Okay, Teddy.
So, this is a joke, then?
You're trying to simulate sapient humor, or... That was the best I could do.
This is the best you could do? You didn't even say it in your own language.
Sorry, that was the best I could do.
No, it isn't.
What would you like me to say, then?
Well, I already did that.
Um, I would like you to request... An audience with your emperor to discuss
terms of your species withdrawal from earth and I did that convincingly Why
that's gonna be difficult. Why?
At the risk of repeating myself i'm not an alien
Teddy
About our situation here.
And I think I know what's going on.
Okay, yeah, please, enlighten me.
So, look, I feel qualified here because I am a chemist by training, but I also
have a psych degree.
Oh, okay, wow, great.
Degree from a university from a credentialist scam for laundering
Amazing. Well, yeah, I do have a degree, and I also have read a lot about this.
You can't talk your way out of this again.
I'm not a kid anymore.
I think you're in a kind of echo chamber. Echo chamber? Right now?
Echo?
Yeah, I read the same 5 ,000 think pieces about that too.
You're consuming content on the internet that is reinforcing this sort of
warped, subjective idea of reality. This is your best shot at me?
Some rabbit hole bullshit you read in the Times?
Come on, come on.
Can we have a dialogue, please? Don't call it a dialogue.
This isn't Death of a Salesman. Okay, can we talk, please? Or are you just
to do it? We don't need to talk. Okay.
Because I know exactly what you're going to say.
You're going to say that I'm in some kind of internet -induced, auto
feedback loop and... And gatekeepers and norms and all that weak, hegemonic
horse shit. But that is precisely the limp dick rhetoric that you've been
instructed to counter the human insurgency with. That's the fucking
-normalized dialectic by which you've convinced seven and a half billion
that they're not your captives.
To keep us believing in these fucking false, institutional fucking
shibboleths.
You mean shibboleths.
That's what I said.
You said...
Yeah, whatever.
Sorry. I guess grammar is a false Andromedan construct as well.
I'm sorry.
You're angry.
I see that.
I even think you have a right to be angry.
You do?
Yes, but we need to have an honest talk in good faith about what is going on.
Yes, you're right.
Let's talk it out. Let's create a safe space, safe words, good faith, dialogue.
When you talk about this, when you talk about that, and what we talk about, when
we talk about fucking talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talking
forever until we're all fucking dead.
Yeah, I agree.
So what is this exactly that you want?
What do you really want? Is it money?
Your capital has no value to us.
So what is it then? A power thing?
A sex thing?
We have no interest in you sexually.
Irrespective of the fact that your reproductive organs may not be
with ours. My cousin and I have also been chemically castrated.
But I figured you might try to lure us in that way, hence the precaution. See,
Don?
Teddy.
Come on.
We have options here.
No. We do. There are no options.
There are no rules.
There are no deals.
There is no payoff.
There is no money.
There is no...
legal system. There is no Congress. There is no America.
There is no global democratic order.
Okay?
So don't talk to me like I'm a dipshit because I am not a dipshit. I'm a guy
that knows what the fuck is happening. And you will not defeat me, you sick and
son of a fuck!
Hey, I'm sorry.
You need help?
You're mentally ill.
Everybody denies it at first.
And then they confess.
I didn't discover them on my own. I stand on the shoulders of giants.
The PA99N2 microlensing event proved that there was an exoplanet, and
Gideon55's YouTube studies in Tandrond and infiltration paved the way for my
research. But I was the one who discovered how to identify them, okay?
I created that content.
Obviously, I've never been on the ship before, but I know enough to render it
my laptop.
The journey there will be instantaneous.
But once we're on board inside their chemical atmosphere, they may be able to
hear our thoughts. So keep your mind clear and decisive during the
They will see that we are men of honor and dignity and that
Earth, with its vast resources and human ingenuity, has much that we can offer.
So much more than this.
Fucking worthless death spiral into chaos and shit.
And if you won't listen to reason, well, I have a plan for that too.
What will our lives be like in space?
In space?
Aren't we going to live in space?
Well, bud, uh...
We'll only be gone for a few hours. We're not leaving Earth for good. We're
saving it.
So we have to stay here?
Well, yeah, of course.
But we're saving it, so it'll be a good place to live again. So everything will
be okay.
Yeah, I know.
Sorry.
It's okay, man.
Ever since those shots you gave me, I felt weird and crazy
and sometimes sad.
Have you felt that way too?
It'll pass, don't worry.
You're out of breath.
You make me nervous.
I've been doing a lot of pondering and I think we should start over.
I want to help you.
And given that, there is something that I should have said to you earlier.
I am finally prepared to say to you now, with conviction,
I am an alien.
I admit it.
You were right all along. I am an alien.
I mean, you can't blame me for trying to conceal it for as long as I did.
Part of my mission here on Earth is to blend in and so forth.
sounded forceful or the verisimilitude is not what you would want it to be
necessarily, but I assure you I mean what I say, and I would like to move
forward now to a solution.
I'm an alien.
Want to start over?
Yeah.
Good.
Let's start over.
I was hoping we could agree on your genus and avoid a painful test, but you
forced my hand.
I admitted it, okay?
I admitted it. I'm sorry.
I'm a humane person. I do not want to do this.
I'm an idiot.
I agree.
Do you have the time to listen to me whine about
nothing and everything all I want?
I am one of those melodramatic fools.
She already admitted it.
Kill her family, Cousy. Yeah, but that doesn't seem right.
Please stop, please, please.
Don't, don't, don't do this, don't do this.
Okay, here comes the first wave.
Trust me, John.
Trust me.
Second wave.
That's great.
the chart.
The output has never reached that threshold before.
Before? Could you get me a towel please?
profusely i did not realize
your majesty what i stupidly thought you were admin
i did not realize at that voltage
you had the royal genetic code i'm sorry i
didn't know
The most important thing I want to stress to you right now is I never want
put this behind us.
Never.
What happened is part of all of us now, and it doesn't go away, and it doesn't
get swept under the rug, and it doesn't get excused. Not on my watch.
This one sticks forever.
I am putting this up on the corporate match head for all to see, for everyone
our company and our industry to learn from.
That's why I'm meeting all of the victims' families this week.
to let them know we are going to do better.
Maybe we don't even try to market a product like this anymore.
Or maybe, maybe we take this experience to grow and to get this formula right.
Because I really do think if done correctly and safely, this could be a
that could help someone like your mom.
But right now, we would like to do what's right and cover the expenses for
mother's treatment in hopes that her condition might one day improve.
We will not tolerate the idea of you or your family bearing the financial burden
of this. We are covering all of it.
It's one long hug.
And again, we're just so sorry.
You'll have to excuse me. It's my best attempt to approximate the royal
treatment to which you are accustomed.
Oh, that's great. Thank you.
There's a wig in the bathroom. Did you want me to wear that?
No, that was just an option.
Oh, fine.
And I want to apologize for not approaching you with proper courtesy,
realizing, of course, what you were, that you shared blood with the emperor
himself. Oh, that's perfectly all right.
Truth is, we will never make progress here if we can't speak eyeball to
the most evolved examples of our respective species.
I agree. Good. Excellent.
Well, on that note, enjoy.
Thank you.
Just you here?
Yes.
Always?
Sorry? Has it always just been you?
Well, I prefer if we didn't delve too deeply into the personal,
if you don't mind.
Sure, that's fine.
Thank you.
Why don't you tell me more about your movement?
My what?
Your movement, what you're doing.
Respectfully, we are not a movement.
Oh. A movement is made up of many people. I did this all on my own.
Of course.
With the help of my colleague, of course.
Well, it's very impressive.
Thank you. I'm all for people who can...
do that, you know, the activism thing.
99 .9 % of what's called activism is really personal exhibitionism and brand
maintenance in disguise.
Hmm.
Okay. I used to be the same way.
I ran through the whole digestive tract in five years.
Albright.
alt -right, leftist, Marxist, all those stupid badges.
I went shopping hungry and I just bought the whole store.
But I was just looking in the wrong places.
Until I discovered you.
Well, again, that is very impressive.
Thank you.
You as well, Don.
You.
You'll have to excuse my colleague. He prefers not to converse.
Can I go to the bathroom?
In just a minute, Tom.
We're eating right now.
I see you're apiarist.
Of sorts.
I've taken an interest as well.
So I've heard.
Magnificent creatures, honeybees.
Very much so.
Earth's most admirable creation.
Well, shit, I've literally said those exact words before.
Right, so what is it that you admire about them?
About bees?
Complex society, work ethic.
They do their duty, they build their worlds without complaint or piety or
-obsession.
All true.
Which is why they're so easy to exploit, right?
We just admire their resolve, that's all.
Even in the face of peril.
Well, we can agree on that.
What sort of peril, by the way?
Sorry? You said bees have faced peril.
Such as?
What do you want me to say?
Just say it.
Why don't you say it?
No, you should just say it.
You go ahead.
No, I insist.
No. Please.
After you.
Colony Collapse Disorder.
Sure, Teddy. Like ZZD.
You're a bit of an expert on CCG. Well, I wouldn't say that exactly.
Well, I would say that exactly.
It's all right. We're just talking.
So I think you're referring to the neonicotinoids that my company makes.
You know what? Let's just leave it. No, I appreciate your concern.
I just think your research is a bit out of date, Teddy.
Your CCD has declined significantly in recent years. The bees are coming back.
And there's no consensus that pesticides were ever a real threat to begin with.
Yes, I'm well aware of what you've all been telling us.
Thank you.
I know you want there to be a master plan, Teddy.
You want the bees to be dying.
So that it can be my fault.
And you don't have to think about the real reasons why species die.
Immunodeficiencies.
Changing habitats.
Genetic factors.
Or sometimes a species just winds down.
Winds down?
Maybe something clicks in their heads.
And they just know.
Or they intuit.
A futility of the entire enterprise.
Who knows?
Right?
Right. Who knows?
That's right. So hard to say.
Who knows, Dawn?
We were having a nice dinner.
We were.
Nice, quiet, respectful.
But now we're not.
No, we're not.
And why do you suppose that is?
You tell me.
Because you're lying to me. Are you sure I can't use the bathroom?
Your usual conclusion.
You're murdering the bees.
I am not.
No, you're lying.
Again.
Lies. Truth.
Lies. What's the difference?
I can't change your mind. You're right. You can't. Because I know who you are.
I know what you are.
I know you too, Teddy.
Bullshit, you do.
I do.
You know how I know?
Fuck you.
Sandy Gatz.
What did you say?
I remember, Teddy.
That was your mother, right?
She is my mother. Right, yes, of course.
I'm sorry.
And you will never say her name again.
Understand?
That's fair enough.
But I do think we need to discuss.
We actually do not. Because this is not about that. With all due respect, Teddy,
how could this not be about that?
We believed we were helping.
Don't you dare.
An opioid withdrawal medication like that could have helped your mother and
millions like her. Just stop. And the clinical trial pay, that was helping her
too. I know it wasn't a king's ransom, but... Stop right now. Obviously, we did
not foresee the complications for Sandy or for the others. Do not say her name.
You do not say her name. We believed we paid your family a proper reparation,
but now I see it wasn't nearly enough. Stop. Not by half.
Not by a fraction.
Stop! Teddy, you're right to distrust me.
You are. I lost myself somewhere, okay? Fuck you. Shut the fuck up. I became a
human being that I told myself I would never become. Fuck you!
Not denying that, but I can help you, Teddy.
I can still help you, and I can still help your mother.
I can help her.
Truly, I can.
I mean, can you?
You needed a mother.
She was never there for you. Fucking die, you fucker!
I'll fucking kill you!
Teddy, stop.
You can't beat me because you are a loser and I am a winner.
And that's fucking life.
Hey. Hey.
How annoying is this, right? Yeah.
What's up?
Nah, come on, dude. I know. It's like, why'd I even tell this guy I could stop
by, right?
It's fine, Casey. What's up?
Um, sorry.
I actually do have a real reason to be here, though.
Uh -huh.
Um, well, you know how we're all working this missing persons thing?
Uh, yeah, I just had a couple questions to run by you, actually.
Don't worry.
Obviously, I just, um...
Sorry, could I actually come in, maybe?
Uh, yeah, no, sure, come on in.
Dude, thank you, I really appreciate that.
We are not alone.
Huh?
Nothing, just, you know, we are not alone.
Oh, right.
Well, we're not.
Right. You want some water, or?
That would be great, thank you.
I gotta tell you, man, it's pretty weird being back in here.
A lot of feelings.
Yeah, well, same old shit.
Thank you.
Scared the chair's gonna run away?
What?
No, my mom, she's had fits or whatever, so we nailed the chair down.
Yeah.
Oh.
What?
My arch nemesis.
You want a piece of cake?
I mean, if you insist.
Yeah, I love this stuff.
You have some questions?
Yes,
sorry. You're still at Oxford, right?
Yeah.
So you must know about the Fuller case?
I mean, I heard a little, yeah.
On the news?
I don't get the news from the news.
Right, of course, sorry.
I'm just here on a hunch, really. I see this missing lady, her phone pinged a
cell tower in the area at night of the abduction. Thank you.
Well, those things have a pretty wide radius, though, right?
Yeah, no, for sure. She said her car was also snapped by a speed trap near the
intersection down the road over here.
Oh, yeah?
I know.
I'm, uh, you know, long shot, right? But, I don't know, it's a sparsely
populated area. Figured I'd check in with the local residents, see if, uh,
or Don seen anything peculiar.
Uh, no, no.
Well, let's see here.
For starters, have you seen this car?
What about this woman?
I mean, yeah, she owns my work, yeah. But I haven't seen her. You haven't seen
her in person?
No.
I scanned packages, so I wouldn't.
No, no, dude, I know. I'm sorry.
How about your neighbors?
They say anything about, I don't know, any out of the ordinary activity?
I mean, I don't know them, really.
Right. I'm sorry, man.
I'm really grasping at straws here.
Look, I mainly just want to check up on you, man.
I know the last thing you want is from your fucked up babysitter from 20 years
ago.
Stopping by, feeling guilty about...
You know, whatever went down.
But sometimes I pass by this place and I just get this fucking sad, awful
feeling like, what's going on in there?
You know?
Not much.
Put the gun down. Look at me.
I know you would never hurt me.
Thank
you,
Don.
You could have shot me earlier, upstairs, but you didn't.
How you behaved was honestly heroic.
Why don't you use that word lightly?
You have been the only thing stopping him from doing God knows what to me.
I don't talk to you.
That's how it is.
Just stay quiet.
But you know this is crazy, right?
You know this is wrong.
I know you know that.
Shut up. I'm just saying.
There is a world, Don.
There is a world where we help you and your cousin and your aunt.
Where reparations are paid and a page is turned.
All of that can happen for you.
No.
You're going to get me and Teddy arrested.
No, I wouldn't.
And if you're right and Teddy gets arrested, it'll all be different for
Don. It will.
If you let me go.
Doc, I know what you're doing.
All he does is drag you deeper and deeper into a pit.
He never actually offers you a way out for you.
I can do that for you, Don.
I want to do that for you.
I said shut up.
It's okay.
I know you're confused.
And frustrated.
No one in the universe could possibly blame you.
Shut up!
Put the gun down.
Just talk to me. No!
Sit down and talk to me. Put the gun down. Just shut up.
Alien. Veil.
You ever shop again?
Fucking asshole.
Sorry. I know he's your dad and you probably love him.
I really wouldn't recognize him.
Look, Teddy, I know it was a long time ago, what I did to you, man.
It's fine.
No, it wasn't fine. It was wrong, but I promise you, it's not because I liked
it. It was just, you know, probably some weird power thing. I was young and
lost, and I promise you, dude.
I never, ever do that to anybody else.
Just forget it.
It's done.
Seriously.
Really? Mm -hmm.
I think you should read this.
It should help me a lot.
Thank you, dude.
Hey, you want to see my bees?
Someone's up there, right?
Shut up.
Is it the police?
I said shut up.
It is.
Don, they're going to arrest your cousin.
But it is not too late for you.
Please. Stop.
If you let me go right now, everything will work out for you.
No, it won't. It will, Don.
I promise.
You don't understand.
Nothing left for me.
Teddy is all I have.
We'll find something else for you.
You don't need him.
Yes, I do.
I love him.
Sorry I couldn't help you find that lady.
Sorry.
Be gentle.
There
is
so much else out there, Don.
No, there's not.
Not here.
Then where?
Where do you want to go, Don?
We can go there.
I'll take you there.
If you are an alien, will you help me, Don?
That's enough of that, please. You know I'm not an alien.
You know that.
But if you are, would you take me with you?
What? If all of this is true, and you have a spaceship,
would you take me away from here?
Of course, Don.
Yes, absolutely.
I'll take you with me.
We'll leave Earth.
I promise that's what'll happen, okay?
If you let me go.
Thank you.
But not without Teddy.
Please, Don. We don't have much time.
They're gonna break in here at any minute, and then I won't be able to help
to leave okay can you do one thing for me
tell teddy that i'm sorry that i love
him
I swear to you, he did it to himself. He thought the police were coming and he
panicked and he just freaked out.
Teddy, no, no. What did you say to him?
Nothing.
What fucking filth did you fill his sad brain with, you demon from hell? He was
under extreme pressure, Teddy. He cracked.
And you cracked him.
You poisoned his heart with lies and bullshit until his whole fucking world
collapsed. Didn't you? You fed him a fucking fairy tale. He did all of it for
you, you fucking maniac.
Don't kill me, Teddy. I have a cure for your mother.
What? There's a cure.
You can save her.
What are you saying?
Inside of her, a big change is taking place.
It's an entire rearranging of her genetic code.
She was the first sample.
It's a very important Andromedon experiment, and it takes four to five
But if it succeeds, she will wake up.
What if it doesn't succeed?
Then she'll die.
But if we chemically terminate the experiment, she will wake up. She'll
How do we do that?
You have my car?
Yes. Okay. So in my car, in the trunk, in the back, there is a bottle.
It's a yellow jug.
And it says monoethylene glycol, antifreeze. But forget the label. It's
antifreeze. It's a cure.
I keep it in my car, in the trunk, in the antifreeze jug, to hide it.
For safety.
If this experiment is so important, why would you allow me to cancel it?
Huh?
There are multiple experiments happening all over the world. Your mother's one
of dozens.
Just trust me. I'm chained up here.
There is no way of escaping. Why would I lie?
fucking virus.
Not anti -free. Amen.
Please help. Please help. Please help.
Mom wake up you can do it wake up
Thank you.
Monster. How many were Andromedons?
You lied to me. How many were Andromedons?
Two.
Two?
You miserable fucking idiot. Do you know what you've done?
You.
You killed her. Quiet.
And I'll tell you why it is I resemble a human.
Our 75th emperor first discovered the Earth.
This planet was ruled by dinosaurs, magnificent creatures with a complex but
stable ecosystem.
But we inadvertently spread a fatal virus to the planet.
The emperor was struck with guilt, watching all of his creatures perish.
So he gave new life to this planet, life resembling us.
The early test humans could barely stand, but soon they walked and began to
reproduce.
Civilization was born in harmony with nature.
Atlantis.
We were worshipped as gods.
But some humans switched to Serpathos.
So they began creating their own new lab -grown humans that were stronger.
But the new humans were also more aggressive, so a conflict broke out.
that eventually resulted in a thermonuclear war. And in the war's
humanity was extinguished, save for a select few who built an ark and traveled
the oceans for a century.
When it was finally safe to resurface on dry land, the leaders of the ark died,
leaving behind only a few mutant specimens of degraded semi -humans,
the apes.
Evolution resumed, but toward chaos.
The newly evolved human beings, your current ancestors, fought amongst
themselves in an endless cycle of war, genocide, ecological destruction. They
brutalized Earth. They ruined her waters, ravaged her climate, poisoned
themselves with drugs and technology.
And even when presented with irrefutable evidence of their own self
-destruction, the humans continued, unabated.
Even I myself became more human.
more selfish and cruel the longer I stayed here, amongst your kind.
But humans can't help the way they are.
It's in your genes, the genes implanted by your ancestors to strengthen
themselves. It gets reproduced in your bodies and it grows stronger.
We Andromedans are here to eliminate that suicidal gene, to save humanity,
but also to save Earth.
From you and your kind.
No.
No, you came here to kill us.
You came to kill us. That's wrong. That's wrong, Kitty.
Some of us would have preferred to simply eliminate your species, but the
Emperor believed there was still hope, so... The experiments... The experiments
your mother was a part of, she was chosen because she was weak.
Because she was broken.
If we could correct her, perhaps...
All humans could be corrected.
But you killed her. You killed her.
I figured you'd be apprehended feeding antifreeze to a coma patient, and then
I'd be freed.
I could return to my work. But you actually got away with it, you sick ape.
I'm not a sick ape. You are a sick ape.
Listen, there are other test subjects who are showing progress, and we must
the emperor the truth.
Tomorrow.
During the lunar eclipse.
Teddy, listen, I know, I know, you may hate me.
You may want me dead. I don't blame you.
But I have the information you need to save Earth. And you know I do.
You're a fucking demon.
This is our destiny, Teddy Gats.
Yours and mine.
And the hour is almost upon us.
Jesus, Miss Foolish. Hi, Ricky.
How are you? I'm back.
Could you buzz me in, please?
Are you okay? Are you all right? Oh, I'm all right.
Everything's been sorted out. Could you buzz me in, please?
Thank you, Ricky.
Park in your usual spot.
Don't worry, Don.
I'll be with me. I'm taking you with me.
Hi, Tony.
Here you go. Have a good evening.
Good to see you.
Good to be back.
Oh, it's 535, so if any of you need to go home, just, you know, feel free.
All right, thank you.
okay so uh he he meets us here then or uh we make remote contact with the
emperor here and then maybe miss us beam myself or you know
transport okay
uh it sometimes takes a couple of minutes to get the link working
so okay uh
And, uh, what exactly do we make the link?
Oh, this will sound crazy, but, um, I, I punch in a code here, and then,
um, it initiates a link with the ship.
On a calculator?
Yeah, I know.
I know, it had to look banal and humor and, you know, inconspicuous.
It's a 58 -digit code, and I have it memorized, but it's been a while since I
had to type it out.
So is this really how it works? It's better if we don't talk, actually.
Sorry, it's a memory thing that I do, like a trick.
or remembering.
Can they see
through here?
Oh, no. Can they see in here? No.
Wait so long. I have a few.
Just shh for a second while I think. Oh, sorry.
Yeah.
Okay.
That's it.
I mean, I just have to press enter mainly.
Are you ready?
Yes, I'm ready.
Fuck, wait.
My air tank.
I'll need oxygen in my air tank. Oh, there will be oxygen, Teddy.
Okay.
What about Don?
Oh, we'll send for Don.
We may even be able to revive him.
Right. So it's happening. Shit.
No,
I'm ready. I'm ready.
You should know that I've prepared for all eventualities.
Okay, prepare to help.
Oh. Oh, shit, Teddy.
I can't take the chance of you killing me straight away. No, that was smart.
That was very smart, and the Emperor will admire your intelligence.
You're a credit to your species, Teddy, truly.
Well, I'm just trying to help.
I know, Teddy.
Um, so this...
This closet here is a teleporter.
So you'll enter the closet and then you'll close the door behind you.
And then I'll count to three and press enter.
And we'll have to go one after the other so that our bodies don't reconstitute
together during teleportation. You understand?
Uh -huh.
Yeah, I think so.
Should I just go in the closet?
I can go first. No, no, no.
I'll go first. I don't want you to escape.
Just leave me here.
Okay.
Ready?
I'm ready.
I'll see you up there.
three two one
It's going to be fine.
I know.
I mean, obviously, the shock of it all is... But you can get plenty of help
that kind of thing. So he's dead?
Yeah, he passed away.
Okay. The bomb must have reacted to his body heat or friction.
It happens a lot with homemade explosives.
Right.
Ma 'am, please don't take that off.
Ma 'am, are you going to let that go? I'll be fine. Can you just stay there?
'am, please, hold on.
Stop! Wait!
Hold on!
Just really quickly. One second.
Just one second.
. .
Transictal and transnational.
Three, two, three.
Natal.
Dream, natural dream.
Thank you very much.
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Long time ago
Where
have all the flowers gone?
Young girls pick them everyone When will they ever
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Where have all the young girls gone?
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gone?
Where have all the young girls gone?
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When will they ever learn?
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time passing Where have all the young men
gone?
Long time ago Where have all the young men gone?
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When will they ever learn?
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time passing.
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time ago.
Gone to graveyards every once in a while.
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When will they ever learn?
Where have all the graveyards gone?
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Where have all the graveyards gone?
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When will they ever learn?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Slow like the sea.
Where have all the flowers gone?
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