00:00Choice to leave that behind.
00:08Could I tell her a lie?
00:09Would she believe it?
00:11Why would you lie?
00:13Well, she has a few opinions about me.
00:14I wouldn't mind her forgetting.
00:18Actually, you could implant a lie.
00:20It would take a lot of time and great effort.
00:22The real memories ignite faster
00:23because they're already there on the page.
00:24You just can't see them.
00:30You'll need artifacts to bring back the old memories,
00:33you know, objects from her life, her childhood.
00:37Memory is in the body, not just the brain.
00:40It's in the smells of the past
00:42and the meaning that we wrapped around objects
00:43we had when we were kids.
00:44We used them like shortcuts to ignite the neural pathways.
00:48Our parents died when we were young.
00:51We moved in with our aunt.
00:53There's not a lot of stuff from our childhood.
00:55I'm sorry, but there's something else there
00:57between the ones and the zeros.
00:58It's not just neurons and axons.
01:00There's something else, something mysterious,
01:02like a soul.
01:05And it won't be controlled by me or anyone else.
01:08So sometimes, maybe 10% of the time, it does not work.
01:14But she's responding well.
01:16So you have reason to hope, okay?
01:20Okay.
01:31Sorry for the interruption, boss.
01:32There's a woman out here.
01:33Well, the regular missing persons report,
01:35but she won't leave till she sees you.
01:36It's not a regular missing persons report.
01:45The missing person's name?
01:47Orla Kent.
01:48She's my sister.
01:50Shout out to the head of supply.
01:52I saw her yesterday at the silo council.
01:55Spoke to her.
01:58She's missing.
01:58She comes to me every night after her shift.
02:00Last night, nothing.
02:02Maybe she went home and crashed.
02:04No, she poured her a note.
02:05My parents are old.
02:07They worry.
02:08That's our deal.
02:09Since we were kids, no one explained absences.
02:11No room to worry.
02:14Look, I know you're busy with a whole lot of stuff
02:16that's more important to everyone else in the silo,
02:18but something's wrong.
02:20I know it in my bones.
02:23I lied to my parents.
02:25I told them Orla stayed with me last night.
02:28I can't lie to them again today.
02:32Okay.
02:35Okay.
02:54It's all very Frankenstein.
02:57Sir Uncle Mitch?
02:58No, me.
02:59He's asking me to, I don't know,
03:01take a shopping cart into her brain,
03:03pick a whole lot of parts, rebuild her soul.
03:09Well, I mean, who are we,
03:11if not the sum of our memories, right?
03:14I guess.
03:16Look, I thought I might go check on her,
03:18if that's okay.
03:19I never served, so, you know,
03:20some candy, some magazines to a wounded vet
03:22feels like literally the least I could do.
03:23Sure.
03:28Daniel.
03:29Hey.
03:30Helen.
03:32Hi.
03:32Hi.
03:33Have you met Anna Thurman?
03:35Helen Drew?
03:36Not officially.
03:38Everyone says your mother's talking points
03:39are bulletproof since she roped you in, so.
03:41Helen and I accidentally ended up on a date.
03:43Oh, not a date.
03:45Um, listen, I just went by your office.
03:47I heard about your sister.
03:48I wanted to say sorry.
03:50Thanks.
03:51Is she at Walter Reed?
03:52No, they, um, transferred her to the Heidi Stinson clinic.
03:55Wow.
03:56Someone must have pulled some serious strings.
03:58I can't imagine a naval aviator would have that kind of money tucked away.
04:00Actually, I think you'll find that Dr. Storkovich has been treating combat veterans free of charge for years now.
04:05Um, yeah, I guess, yeah.
04:08His first trial was on prison populations in countries too indebted to USA to say no.
04:12His second was with the DOD on first-year recruits who don't get a say in their medical treatment.
04:16And in both cases, he took a big blackboard eraser and wiped out their memories.
04:20He let traumatized combat vets forget the horrors that they saw.
04:23He let career criminals forget that they were criminals and become productive members of society.
04:26But he decides what people remember, what they don't remember.
04:29Doesn't that worry you?
04:32Well, it's a little more complicated than that.
04:34And she's my sister, you know, everything since she became a fighter pilot worries me.
04:38Is it too cynical to say that he is using injured vets to test his theories?
04:41Helen.
04:41Victor lost his wife and child in a car accident when he fell asleep at the wheel.
04:45My guess is he's got more skin in the trauma game than most.
04:49Hmm.
04:51Take care.
04:52And, uh, send Charlotte my best.
04:54Sure.
04:59You met with a reporter and you thought it was a date?
05:03Politicians and reporters, you know.
05:05It's transactional.
05:05Yes, I know.
05:06I was, uh...
05:08Distracted?
05:10Well.
05:10As well as being quite good looking, she's also good at her job.
05:13Even if the only one she could get was a shitty one.
05:15She's not at the post?
05:15No.
05:16No, she hasn't been there for a year.
05:18She's a bad girl.
05:19She's at some online sleaze factory now.
05:22Still.
05:23She's a reporter.
05:24She got what she wanted and you got nothing.
05:26What'd she get?
05:27You told her where Charlotte's being traded.
05:30And you told her for free.
05:32Oh.
05:33Oh.
05:33Oh.
05:34Oh.
05:34Oh.
05:35Oh.
05:36Oh.
05:49She said you should take the whole box.
05:51For luck.
05:53Okay.
05:55You wanted the truth.
05:57The truth is I love you.
05:59Have no fear.
06:01They're good in supply.
06:06Mayor?
06:08Mayor?
06:09Mr. Sims asked me to love our movements more formally today.
06:12Get back to supply.
06:13They don't find us more rebar?
06:15The stairs?
06:16They'll only be ready for their grandchildren.
06:20Cover me.
06:27You know, you still got to talk to her.
06:29I can't.
06:37She asked for your help.
06:42I can't.
06:42Okay.
06:43Maybe I should check with someone.
06:45It's safe and ought to go down.
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