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Favorite Shows: Give Me Away
In this episode of 'Favorite Shows,' Chris recommends the captivating sci-fi thriller 'Give Me Away,' which follows Graham Shapiro as he navigates a midlife crisis amidst an alien ...
Favorite Shows: Give Me Away
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Hi everyone, Chris here.
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While we're busy building the second to last episode of Dirt, which we expect to release
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the first or second week of October, I want to take a moment to recommend a terrific show
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that I'm personally caught up with and enjoy called Give Me Away.
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Give Me Away is a full cast science fiction thriller from the writer of The Message, Life
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After, and Steal the Stars, three other great shows that I've also enjoyed and binged,
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and you should too.
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Give Me Away centers on Graham Shapiro, a middle-aged man whose kids have moved on and whose
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marriage is falling apart, right at the moment that an alien spaceship called the Ghost
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House lands in the Nevada desert.
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It turns out that the Ghost House is a prison ship from another world that houses thousands
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of aliens who are stored as digital entities, and the only way for them to be freed from
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their prison is for humans to extract them and put them into their own brains, basically
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as mental roommates.
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Struggling to find a new purpose in life, Graham signs up, kickstarting a wild family
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adventure that is funny, intense, intimate, and current, mirroring in so many ways the
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complicated times we live in.
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The writing, acting, and sound design in Give Me Away are superb, with twists and turns
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that will make you want to binge the first two seasons and get fully caught up with
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the third season, which is currently in release.
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The show is available at all the usual podcast places, as well as right here, right now.
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Here comes season 1, episode 5 of Give Me Away.
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My Body is Your Body.
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Ma'am?
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Hi.
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What?
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It's so sorry, ma'am, don't mean to disturb you.
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What do you want?
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Okay, let's take a step back.
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Lieutenant Brian Riley.
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You're saying that's you.
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Yes, ma'am.
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Brocarus, I don't have a rank.
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Oh, that's all right.
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Lots of nice people, though.
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I just wanted to make sure my team wasn't bothering you at all.
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Bothering me?
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You're under no obligation to socialize.
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I just wanted to make sure you weren't sitting at the far end of the cabin because you were
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perturbed in any way.
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Why would I be perturbed?
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Large group of men.
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Maybe a touch rowdy at times.
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I just wanted to make sure you know that these are men of discipline and impeccable character.
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What about that one over there?
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Is he perturbed?
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I wouldn't worry about Cory.
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He's having a rough time for completely unrelated reasons.
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Then why shouldn't I worry about him?
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Because Professor, where that young man is concerned, I'm doing enough worrying for
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all of us.
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I didn't tell you I was a professor.
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Thing is, they asked me, can this civilian catch a ride on your troop carrier to Red Camp?
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And of course, I said yes.
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I'm hospitable by nature.
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But I also took a minute to read up.
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Now, if I were to ask you what conceptual modeling is, would I be too dumb to understand
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the answer?
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Would you like the answer I use when they make me talk to donors?
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Please.
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There are things in this world we want to act upon even though we can't see them.
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My job is to take all we know about those things and invent a three-dimensional approximation
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of what they look like.
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Huh.
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That probably sounds silly to you.
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Not at all.
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Acting on things I can't see ahead of time is a big part of my job too.
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Give me a way, Episode 5.
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My body is your body.
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Permission to ask a question, sir.
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Yes, Sergeant, we're actually going inside.
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Scaffolding is not completed, so we'll have to take the rope ladder up to the door.
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Not a problem, sir.
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I tell you, to take a moment to get used to it, but...
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I've already seen it all on TV.
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Not all.
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The livestream shows the overall picture, but none of the nuances.
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You need eyes on sight for that.
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Sharp eyes.
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So that's why the screams aren't louder.
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It's a bad-aid solution.
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Can't exactly study something you've covered in insulation.
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Sergeant, you all right?
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Sir.
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Climbing 50 feet on a rope ladder is no easy task.
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Do you feel all right?
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Sir, I've climbed a lot of rope ladders.
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I'm not sure what you...
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Exactly.
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Sir.
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You've climbed a lot of rope ladders, probably most of them under my command.
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Yes, sir.
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We did them so many times in drills.
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I probably...
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Don't have to think about it anymore, right?
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Getting your weight distribution just so, moving your opposite hand and foot in perfect
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tandem to ensure that the speed doesn't compromise balance.
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Yes, sir.
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That's what the training is for.
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That's what training is.
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The accumulated wisdom of decades and centuries of combat transmuted into instinct, so that
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your every hair trigger response is profoundly informed by the whole history of tactical knowledge.
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With respect, sir.
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Yes, Sergeant.
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Why are we here?
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You saved lives, Cory.
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We'll never know whose lives exactly, but some of those men who served next to you every
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day are alive because of your instinct, your split-second wisdom kicking in when it
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counting.
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I know, sir.
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I've accepted everything in your body and voice is telling me that you don't know.
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Now, why is that?
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Sir, they...
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They were boys.
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Of course, they were boys.
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That's who they send.
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Thinking you'll see that they're boys and not react, that you'll forget the training
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that lives in every inch of your body, but you didn't.
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The evil was in the sending of boys, not your reaction to it.
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I'm trying, sir.
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I'll get there.
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We're here because the only way I know how to climb out of a hole is to start climbing.
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I'm not starting you on something small until you feel better.
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I'm putting you in a situation where you will simply have to be better.
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This is your post.
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6am to 6pm.
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Nothing happens here that you don't see.
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The rest of the world has the live stream I have you.
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Is that clear, Sergeant?
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Yes, sir.
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Room for one more?
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What?
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Is this your private expanse of desert or can I come in?
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I prefer to be alone.
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And I prefer to bug you.
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I'm serious.
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Whatever it's worth, I think you're right.
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Of course I'm right.
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Redundant security system?
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Well, it's a natural thing to assume under the circumstances.
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Not after you've given it any thought at all.
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The man's a fool.
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Well, he's not a fool.
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He's just not as smart as you.
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And really bad at acknowledging it.
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One wrong approach begets another.
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We're going to waste months if we keep treating the phenomena as barriers or fire walls rather than...
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What?
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Individual files that have some sort of...
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It's just you and me.
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Agency.
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Autonomy.
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They're not blocking us.
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That's not what the responses suggest.
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They're somehow reaching out.
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Except that's nuts.
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Why would files in a mainframe do that?
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Do you not believe me?
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Or are you goading me into an answer?
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I'm goading you into an answer.
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The way we're thinking about the computer is entirely wrong.
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We're obsessed with the idea that it's with holding something from us because that's how we think about everything.
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Infiltration, conquest.
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I mean, we did have to get past some initial protocols when...
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Yes, and I'm sure most kennels have a lock on the door.
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But if you unlock it and go inside, are the dogs unhappy to see you?
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Kind of a weird analogy there.
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It is.
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I wonder why I thought of it.
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Look, Clive's already having to work off your virtual model.
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So just from that he's on the back foot.
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So when you call him a dumbass right in front of you...
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It is a dumbass.
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I'm just saying that the next time you think so, tell me and we'll figure out how to bring it up together.
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Why?
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Because I can tell what you are.
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And I want to be in on the ground floor.
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What if you're wrong?
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Hey! Hi!
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Uh, hi.
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Bear trees, right?
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Yeah, I was just assigned.
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I was in the ghost house just now during the...
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Drama?
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Okay.
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Look, this is totally rude, but I would just about kill to know what you guys are talking about.
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I'm not wrong.
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It is our hypothesis that it functions as a sort of...
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...initentiary main...
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Yes, Mr. President.
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I'm watching it now.
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...in the second-side of the computer.
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Well, she's certainly very clear, sir.
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It's just...
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...there may be a bit of a charisma issue.
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...and uploaded into this mainframe as some form of non-transferral data.
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Effectively imprisoning them is definitely...
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Yes, of course, understood, sir.
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We'll be in Carson City in half an hour, and I'll head straight out from there.
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And...
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...you are disconnected.
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Take your time.
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Ma'am, are you okay?
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Give her a second.
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You don't have to ask that every time, Sergeant.
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Sorry, ma'am.
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I feel like I have to.
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You always look...
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...not okay.
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She's fine.
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Or...
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...well, are you?
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This was my first time supervising this without Liz, so...
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We have to go faster.
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We just have to go faster.
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Well, I guess we'll go as fast as...
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Sergeant?
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Ma'am, I'm not okay.
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If I ever answered yes to that question, I was lying.
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Okay.
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Um...
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The reason I always look like this is because I've just returned from an ongoing atrocity.
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Oh, right.
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Why don't we let you...
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...do it for now?
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Wow.
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It really does look just like the...
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...is...
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...this a bad time?
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Um...
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...it kind of is.
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Who are you?
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Sir, you are not on my roster, so I'm gonna need you to identify yourself.
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Gil Cortez, Deputy White House Chief of Staff.
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I was kinda hoping I could borrow Professor Harris.
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Okay, you're gonna have to wait until...
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No.
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I'm ready now.
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Oh.
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Jesus, this is government food?
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It's amazing.
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We hired local people, a restaurant and alcove.
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What do you want?
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Wow, Professor, you do not disappoint.
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I don't know what that means.
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Of course they sent Harris.
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She's practically an alien already.
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I only spoke at that briefing because of Professor Bauer's last minute departure.
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Yeah, I spent most of last weekend talking clive down.
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He thinks you conspired with multiple parties to steal the Nevada project right out from under him.
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That's preposterous!
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Is it?
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Conspire and steal suggest secrecy.
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Professor Bauer's failures to adapt to the facts on the ground happened in public where everyone could see it.
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I can see why Diaz likes you so much.
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Is that good or bad?
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Look, I'm devoted to that man.
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I've been with him since he was Arizona Attorney General.
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And when he loses reelection to some Christophal Republican,
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I'll be with him on his book tour.
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So I support his transparency fetish, 110 percent, even if I think it's misreading the room.
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How so?
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He thinks the problem with his predecessors was too much secrecy.
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Maybe sometimes it was.
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But the problem nowadays isn't cloak and dagger.
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It's that everyone's doing the most corrupt shit imaginable and broad daylight with a smirk on their face.
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Mr. Cortez, my interest in Beltway Scuddle but is very limited.
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It shouldn't be. It affects you directly.
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The Republicans hate this project.
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Why?
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Because a Democratic president likes it.
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They're looking for any angle to undermine what you're doing here.
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So if you're the new face of Red Camp, I'm your new best friend.
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Anything you need, you call me first.
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Anybody bothering you, same.
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And whenever you're making a public statement of any kind, I am your life partner.
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We build it together.
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That's acceptable to me.
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I wasn't actually asking.
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But now I need to go back to work.
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Explain it to me.
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I couldn't if I wanted to.
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Find a way.
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Come on, man. Seriously?
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Maybe if we get some sleep, we can...
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No one's getting some sleep.
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This can't continue. This ends tonight.
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Okay, then make me understand.
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Fuck you.
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Excuse me?
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Okay, look.
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You know how when you have a really bad toothache, you can't think about anything except the toothache.
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I'm aware that's true for some people.
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Okay, sure. I get it.
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You guys never crack.
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You stride out of the brush on two broken ankles or whatever.
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We're not in human, but we do cultivate a tolerance for pain.
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Okay, but while you're tolerating all that pain, how would you like to also be giving a toast at your kids' wedding?
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I don't have children, but I take your pulse.
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This is a waste of time.
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Broke. It's not your fault.
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That expression is worthless.
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It's applicable to nothing.
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Do I get the rest from you or do I follow her?
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We knew the transferred consciousness would want to communicate with us once it got acclimatized inside the computer.
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So we created multiple interfaces, a text program, an illustrator, a virtual modeler, and an audio output.
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Uh-huh. Right.
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We successfully completed the transfer, then probably what?
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A hundred seconds of silence?
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And then every interface just started spitting out gibberish, the text, the drawing program, the modeler,
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just an incoherent spray, and the audio.
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I need no need to describe it.
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They were screaming before.
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But they were also working with us, giving us clues, guiding us along.
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But this...
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It's in so much pain, it can't even put together a thought.
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We made it worse.
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I mean, we...
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We made it worse.
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I shouldn't.
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Don't.
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But that sounds like to me is that she knows she has to kill it.
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Jesus.
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We can't save them.
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And every second we leave them alive.
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You don't have to explain.
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I've been exactly where you are.
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I have to call the president first.
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Because of the radiation, I'll have to do that at the far end of the building.
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I'll come with you.
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But it became almost immediately clear that it was a terrible mistake, that there was no...
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I'm not sure how much intention matters when you've consigned to sentient being to a worse existence than the one you freed them from.
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Cory, turn that shit worse.
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I'm not a police.
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My bed, I'll put on more mud.
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Fuck.
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Mr. Cortez.
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Jesus, this is where you work.
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Of course.
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Come on in.
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I mean, you're in charge of your lieutenant if you wanted an office away from all the busload.
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You could probably make it happen.
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Well, Mr. Cortez, a great deal goes on here that I'm not in charge of.
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But I am in charge of security.
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And this is where most of that happens.
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Bottle of water?
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I'm good.
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Lieutenant, in about half an hour, the president is going to call you on that phone right there,
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and inform you that he's authorized director Harris to proceed with the mapping test.
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Is he going to have a problem?
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Mr. Cortez, the president of the United States is never going to hear anything from me other than yes, sir.
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I understand and will implement the best of my ability.
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Great. That's all I have.
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Now, I can't stop you from disrespecting me in the future, but I can tell you that no one ever needs to throw out a feeler to see if I'll respect the chain of command.
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Okay. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, no, but he's clear.
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This is the mapping test. The director will be performing on herself.
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What? Yes, of course, that's...
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And the president is in full support.
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Then there's nothing more to say.
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Then I'll leave you to it.
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Except, of course, to more various outcomes and their consequences.
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Excuse me?
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Setting aside the possibility that the president has authorized an elaborate suicide on my watch,
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the second most interesting outcome is...
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What if she succeeds?
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Then that'll be great, right?
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It'll certainly suggest a way forward.
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One which seems to me will require more volunteers.
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Which leads me to wonder where those volunteers are going to come from.
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Are you?
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Okay, if you're implying the president is going to ask American service...
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I'm saying soldiers follow orders.
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Which makes giving orders a very great responsibility indeed.
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What can you tell me anything? Her vitals are fine. I don't know what else to say.
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What is this?
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This was stupid. We did this without any post-op protocols.
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Yes, this. Where am I?
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It's you. Broke?
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You just broke our you away?
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Quiet. Where am I?
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Are you feeling... is there any pain?
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Any...
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All of you quiet.
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Where am I?
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You're with me. I'm here.
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You're with me.
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Where am I?
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Wait, is she talking to...
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Oh my God.
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I don't know where I am.
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It's been two days, Liz.
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Can you give me any kind of update?
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Please, please.
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Shit, I have to call you back, Gil. She's having another.
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You gotta try to sleep, brok. This is insane.
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I can't. She thinks it's death. She thinks I'm killing her.
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Please stop. Please. I'm scared.
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Well, can't you...
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I mean, can't you...
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It's rest. It's normal. I promise.
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This is death. You can't do this. This is death to me.
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What's she saying?
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Listen to me.
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Just please be quiet a minute and listen.
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If it's death to you, it's death to me.
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We're the same.
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And I don't want to die either.
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Fuck.
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Death to you? Death to me.
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We're the same.
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What happens to you?
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Happens to me.
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What happens to me?
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Happens to me.
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My body is your body.
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Say it with me.
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My body.
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My body.
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Is your body.
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My body.
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My body.
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Is your body.
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Is your body.
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Is it working?
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My body is your body.
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My body is your body.
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My body is your body.
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My body is your body.
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My body is your body.
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My body is your body.
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My body is your.
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My body is my body.
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I am.
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Is...are you still there?
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Please.
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Are you still there?
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I understand now.
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You're still there.
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I didn't before.
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But I do now.
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Do you not have sleep?
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Where you come from?
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We do, I think.
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But it's different.
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It's a sort of stretching, suspension, until the muscles they...
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realign.
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You're so fast.
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You're finding everything so fast.
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You've laid it out perfectly.
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What's that sound she's making?
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Can't you find it?
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I can.
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But I want to learn it from you.
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I can't wait to tell you everything.
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Listen.
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There is one thing I already know.
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They were the one who issued the proclamation.
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We never would have had the courage with...
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Sorry, I'm late.
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I've got water, some stuff from the cafeteria.
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Wait.
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Let her finish.
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What's happening?
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Deirdre is telling us about their leader.
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The one who died.
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Who's Deirdre?
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Deirdre says, I know you don't I?
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I know your face from broke.
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Hold on.
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Deirdre is...
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Yep.
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She found the name in my mind.
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Beatrice.
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Hello, Beatrice.
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Oh my God.
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Oh my God.
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Sit down.
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Let her finish.
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Without the leader, we never would have had the courage.
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But we followed them all the way to the great...
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hall, court,
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Congress.
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And there, we told everyone knowing they could strike us down
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that we would not lie.
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We would not tell our...
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countrymen that no other life was possible.
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Does she?
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I mean, does she have some kind of control or not control?
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It's hard to explain.
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I'm telling you what she tells me in the way she tells me?
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It's like I...
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What?
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What's she saying now?
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Deirdre speaking.
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But now, I need to tell you about the innovator.
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Who's the innovator?
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She is.
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She has a message.
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Brook and Deirdre.
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Did you see it?
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We're only just watching it now.
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Turn it up.
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I want to hear this again.
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I have so many things to say, but...
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For now, I'll restrict myself to this.
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Thank you.
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Thank you for setting me free.
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Thank you for Brooke.
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Thank you for my name.
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I'm in your home.
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Okay.
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So...
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You must feel pretty proud right now.
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We'll feel proud when the rest of the prisoners are free.
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Say that again?
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I'm in.
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I want to be next.
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Sir?
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Tell me.
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I've heard everyone else.
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It's just Sergeant Wheeler.
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Sergeant?
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Good.
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They sent you...
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How are we doing, Sergeant?
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Got a lot of people stirred up.
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Something about an unwholesome side, um.
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That was right after.
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Couldn't think straight.
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It's holstered now.
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Right after what?
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Right after what?
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Gory.
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I must have watched him do it a hundred times.
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Put on the interface on, anyway?
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For a while, I thought it took two people.
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One to wear it, one to plug in the settings.
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But I kept watching, right?
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Like you said.
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Right.
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See?
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Once you put it on, there's only a couple settings left.
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You can't see him, but they're on top of your head.
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But the switches and the knobs all feel different.
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How did you know that?
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I'm the guy on guard.
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It doesn't look weird if I inspect stuff.
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So you learned how to operate the final settings by touch.
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And I got inside.
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I'll buy myself.
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What did you see, Cory?
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Enough.
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What does that mean?
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It means I quit.
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Excuse me, Sergeant?
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I quit, sir.
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I quit.
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Director?
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Mr. Cortez?
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I've received Lieutenant.
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I prefer to stand.
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Lieutenant Riley, after extensive consultation with Sergeant Wheeler,
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Sergeant Wheeler's family, Director Harris, and the joint chiefs of staff,
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the president has determined to issue an executive order shielding Sergeant Wheeler
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from any military penalty connected with his express desire to...
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What?
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...his expressed desire to leave your command and his position in the United States Army.
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He didn't consult with me.
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The president has further determined to grant Director Harris's application to enroll...
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Director Harris and Deirdre.
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Right.
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Sorry, Director Harris and Deirdre's application to enroll...
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Jesus Christ.
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...to enroll Sergeant Wheeler as...
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Now simply Cory Wheeler.
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...as an acceptance in the Nevada Project Occupation Program.
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He didn't consult with me.
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Lieutenant, the president...
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He didn't consult with me.
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He doesn't have to consult with you.
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You serve at the pleasure.
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I raised that boy.
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He was a shell when they sent him to me.
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You are not taken!
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Lieutenant?
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Of course you are correct, sir.
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The president is under no obligation to seek my input.
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We would further recommend discontinuing the posting of a century inside the Ghost House mainframe.
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Who is we?
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We would suggest that placing additional servicemen in Cory's position
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would serve neither the lieutenant's purposes nor our own.
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Curiosity is inextricable from human nature.
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Okay, don't push your luck. There's no way the Pentagon will allow.
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No.
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I agree.
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I agree.
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Did I catch you at a bad time, Lieutenant?
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Not at all, Senator. What can I do for you?
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I know it's late and I imagine the days are pretty long out there.
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I'm a public servant, sir.
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I always have time for a duly elected representative.
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Well, speaking as one of those, I found that it pays to maintain a healthy back channel with the Pentagon.
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I imagine that would be an asset, sir.
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So it may be of interest to you to know that in the course of my unofficial communications with significant persons
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that quite a few of those significant persons do not share the president's enthusiasm for certain ongoing projects.
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Sir?
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And in many cases, these significant persons disagree with him quite sharply, I'm not it.
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In reference to certain recent judgment calls.
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Senator McKillin, I will never act in any way against the directors of the commander in chief.
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Yep.
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That's almost verbatim, but they told me it's a...
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Will that be all, sir?
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Yeah, that's about it.
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I just wanted to check in, really, let you know how much I appreciate what you do.
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I guess just to remind you that the president has only ordered you not to do some things.
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Some things.
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I mean, if you think about it, there's a whole ocean of things he hasn't ordered you not to do.
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Yes, sir.
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And if the political climate were to adjust a little, the germs coming up at home,
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you might not even need to think that hard.
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Okay, can we go to the next slide?
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Yes, ma'am.
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You know you don't have to say that, right?
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Who came up with this?
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Uh, we did.
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Liz and Robin, based on everything we know about the innovator,
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we put together this profile of the kind of host pairing we're looking for.
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30 years of age.
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We're not married to it, but it seemed like the sweet spot.
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Young enough that we'll have access to their knowledge for a long time,
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but not so young that the innovator could easily, you know, overwhelm them.
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We were gonna say, right, roughshod.
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I say speaking, I never had a problem with them.
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Because you always agreed with them.
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The innovator's favorite quality in a person.
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Look, we need them, right?
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Plus, we're not leaving anyone in there anyway, so...
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Talk us through it.
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Okay, so 30 years old, advanced degree in biochemistry or chemical engineering.
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Strong willed, but not excessively so.
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You definitely want some aptitude for negotiation, and ideally some kind of background and activism.
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Really?
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Well, yeah.
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We want them to be able to meet the innovator where they live, right?
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Speak their language.
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Hmm.
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Should we leave it with you to think about?
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Yes, thank you.
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Want us to clean up?
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That would be lovely.
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See you at 5.
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We'll be there.
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Keep doing that man thing.
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Just have it.
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It doesn't even make sense.
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There's two man's, so...
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Wait, what's that?
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Oh, application, just about to reject it.
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Why?
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Some mid-life crisis guy way too old.
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May we see it?
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I'm not supposed to be here.
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I'll kill you if they don't put me back!
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Broke, dear drop.
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They're sleeping.
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They're sleeping.
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You got them to sleep?
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Eventually.
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Shit, you look rough.
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You want us to take over?
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Is that an application?
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Oh, uh, yeah.
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About this.
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You ran all the way here to show us an application?
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You'll understand when you see who it's...
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Shit, that's his Jeep, isn't it?
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Who?
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Oh, fuck.
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Tell me.
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Lieutenant, look.
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This is...
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No cute preferencing, just tell me.
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There was an error in the mapping process.
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We transferred the wrong consciousness into Gram Shapiro.
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The most recent mapping procedure I have on my schedule was four days ago.
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That's right.
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That's the procedure we're talking about?
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Look, there's been a lot of...
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Yes.
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So you haven't told me for four days in clear contravention of our standing agreement.
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Broke and dear just priority was telling...
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It leads me to wonder if you've informed the president.
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We will.
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We can do that in the next hour.
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We just need to...
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That's not necessary, director.
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I can handle that myself.
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Okay.
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Um...
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How about is that gonna be?
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Who's the application from?
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Take a look.
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So, that's not just somebody with the same name, right?
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That's the Jamie Shapiro?
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