8. Kill Switch

will evaporates, and so it breathes in the water. The thing it believes will allow it to survive will in fact kill it. And this part only stops when the brain stops. You were dreaming about the incident from your child. This was different, This was someone else. It was a woman. Her head was forced under the water. Someone was drowning her and I just stood there watching it, kept repeating, playing, over and over and over again. It doesn't surprise me.

You missed two doses, Max, and when you finally crashed, your brain had a lot of housekeeping to do all on its own. You can't be missing doses like sure cast I get that, but you're you're a psychiatrist, dream like that? What do you think it? I don't know. Represents dreams are how our brains process emotion. Nightmares represent repressed fears like powerlessness or loss of control. Didn't feel like a representation. It was vivid, lucid. It felt real.

I'll bet it. That kind of activity in your subconscious indicates its processing at an accelerated rate. It's your brain activated at a high level, racing to catch up. It's a symptom of withdraw Max, your dreams are going to be a little frightening if you go cold turkey. How do I make them stop? Well? Nice forward, deep breath. How are you back now? Yeah, I'm back? And is

it done? Yeah? It's done. Get by m hm m hm h or lou Virginia about an hour and a half from Arlington, depending on how much this storm slows me down. After Maxis speech sees the value of the next course, initial coin offering skyrocketed over five million people try to pre order shy and next Corps website crashed. The offers were pouring in. One VC offered four hundred billion, and Max turned it down because in the days leading up to see. Yes, Max Fuller had been up to something,

something big and now shot. I was about to fall into someone else's hands. You see, Max had been offered and on goodly sung by someone to acquire his start up and release his products of the masses, whether they were safe or not. It would have to have been someone gigantic, someone with the resources the funding to roll out Shy on a massive scale without having to worry

about regulations at all. By the time I made it back to San Francisco, Max was already got in all the departments at Next Corp, laying off of sev of all Next Corp employees. Only the critical stuff remained. Afterwards, Max quote a private meeting in Cassandra's office. That's when I crashed, right, Jack. I'd been lying there, passed out for exactly three minutes. My head and Mike was recording the entire time. We need to call an ambulance. Casket

Eddie in here? Hey Jack, Jack, wake up? Should we call an ambulance? I doubt that's necessary? Well, is he breathing? Finn? If he wasn't breathing, I'd call a damn ambulance. What n't I? Well, how's his pulses. He feverish. He's fine, Finn, it's probably just withdrawal. What is from with the two of you? Fan? Come now? No, No, I held my tongue after the trials, Max, when you started testing on yourself because it was your goddamn body, Max, and you

knew the risk. He knows the risk. Save it, Cassandra. We were all on a straight and narrow before you inserted yourself into this. What do you have to gain cast that I don't know about? Yeah? What do you have to go? You fired? If you're happy getting time pumps inside of every brain that challenges you, well guess what you're not getting into mine. You can both go straight to hell and expect to hear from my lawyers. If I decide that I'm forgiving enough not to go

straight to the goddamn h then let him go. He can tear everything down. No, he can't. If anyone gets ahold of our records. Guest, listen to me, listen to me. Shut up. Hi, Yeah, it's Mr Fuller. I need security to immediately intercept Mr Connolly and remove him from the building. That's right, yes, sir, thank you, that's Eddie. Are you calm yet? I am Eddie. You need me? It's Jack? Holy shit? What happened withdrawal from shut eye? Spars the theatrics? Eddie,

I already got a whole earful from Finn. Just check to make sure he didn't split his goddamn skull. Okay, his pupils look normal. Where'd you hit back of the head? No blood. He'll probably have a crick in his neck from the way you had him lying. Can you do anything for what his head ache? No, it's cholesterol. Can you wake him up? Jack? Jack? Jack? Fine, Eddie, that'll be fine. We're good. Are we going to talk about my department? Sure? Um, they're fired except you if you

want to stay. Jesus, them's the brakes kid? Oh? Are you going to dose him? I'm going ahead to the meeting? All right, you can deal with the rest. Yes, yep, thank you so much. There you go, Jack. His pulse is a little high. How you feeling, Jack? That'll be all Eddie, Thank you, Cassandra. Yes, you can all go to hell. Thank you. Eddie. Who was long enough to miss the fireworks? And there was a call for you?

I told them you were out, But you may want to check your voicemail they very badly wanted to talk to you. Well fires weapons. Well, you tell me, Jack, how much should I have you been taking? And how often? Just what you gave me ship. So a side effect is that it makes the program that he's trying to fix was it regulates hormones on your behalf. If you don't recharge the nanites at regular intervals, they go offline, and so your body loses that delicate balance and you crash.

You may want to put that on the label. Your opinion has been noted. While you were out cold. We fired his entire department. Wait what, I can understand what he's upset. But when Max makes a decision, everyone yeah in his department. Don't worry Jack, you still have a job. Max's orders. He had to run. There's quite a bit going on. And and Finn, well he was okay with it, of course not he quit quit. It was all quite dramatic. He stormed out of the building. You should have been here,

well here and a week now. If you'll excuse me, Jack, Max has created quite a bit of paperwork. I think you'll find you've got your share of work cut out for you to Oh, I have something for you, shy enough for you to ramp down over the coming days. As you can see, you don't want to go cold turkey on this. Okay, huh, I guess half the dose. Every time the headaches come back, You kiss when and if you need more? See me. When I finally did check my voice moment I got the ass as to

why Abby Reynolds didn't me in the alleyway. This is Detective Charles of the San Francisco Pete Homicide Unit. We're investigating the drowning death of Dr Abbey Reynolds. You understand that you may be the last person to have seen her alive. If you could call me. I had to find Finn if he was out that maybe he was vulnerable, maybe even in a position to come clean. I was still working out my game, my strategy of how to

get a confession out of him. When I co op with him, I thought, I find you here, What the hell do you want? I'm sorry, Finn, man, I need to tell you something. Beat to Jack, I'm on level thirteen and I can't chit chat right now. You have to trust me, Finn. I'm sorry. What Why would I trust you, Jack? Of all people? Because no, no, no, no, no, no, no, enough. Look, I want to trust to Jack, because despite all of your bullshit and your lives, you're actually pretty cool. Baby.

You need to explain this, damn it. Vegas. You help me, not just the speech, which would have been really good things to you, but you reminded me of a part

of myself i'd forgotten. He reminded me who I really am, which is a geek obsessed with antique arcade games, sci fi and psychedelics and the mechanics of the human brain, of an endearing uber nerd, instead of what I become, which is a mad scientist whose body hacking startup is about to evolve millions of humans and the machines, which brings me back to the reason I can't trust you, Jack, even if you really are a cool dude deep down inside, I can't trust you because right now you have a

swarm of tiny robots in your brain. No, no, listen, no ship, an alien fleet of space invaders inside your skull, converging in clusters a cross millions of synapsis and bombing the ship out of them. They're a program to light up your endocrine system on command from your hypothalamus, all the way down to your testicles, my friend. It's taking control of your body's communication. But instead of using nerves to transmit information, it uses your blood. It's a hormone

delivery system. Dopamine, oxytose and testosterone, adrenaline, serotonin, cortisol, and so on and so on. It it's controlling your brain. You understand that, don't you? And guess who owns the aliens? Jack? Next quote Benga, when you took shot I, Jack, you handed Cassandra Berkeley a joystick to your brain? Oh wait, I thought I was just asleep, right? Should and about keeping you awake. It's about keeping you connected. Should I

can be used to make you happy or sad. It can give you a raging heart on or it can make you want to jump off of a building. Jack shut. I is mind control, And somehow, with all of our hard work, you and me just helped Max Fuller convinced over a million people to order it. That's when I saw it through the back window the gray van. We have to leave? What leave? I just got Finny. We have to leave this place right and I'm not going anywhere with you? Jack? All right? How long has it

been following? What? Who? Who's fall with us in the great van behind you in the black alley. What gray van, Jesus Christ Man, those space in vaders. You must really be doing getting paranoid. Listen to me, man, The van has been following me and women's in it. It's dangerous bullshit. You are losing it, Abbey. I'm met Abbey Reynolds. Abbey, Okay. Max wanted me to give her a payout, but I never could. When I came back to my table from the Red starre Abbey was gone, disappeared, and the guys

in the grave vand yes, yes. And a few hours ago I got back from bankers only to see my apartment building on fire, my home in flames. And you know what else I saw there? Yes, Finn, they almost got me, just like they got tomorrow. Just up and April nine, Michael Colpid, how the hell do you know about our test subject? Remember them, fim? They would the first humans to test your ship out in themselves. Man. But they are dead now because someone got to them.

Now now, now there is no direct correlation between the Triumphant, all right, So I suppose you're you're gonna say that Abby Reynold's death was a coincidence to what heah Man yesterday. I don't believe you, but no, I don't believe you, Mr Cross. This is Detective Charles of the San Francisco Pete Homicide Unit. We're investigating the drowning death of Dr Abbey Reynolds. We understand that you may be the last

person to seeing her alive. If you could tell, oh my god, now, are you ready to drop people ship than that routine? Because I hope you are. You can't dodge this anymore, and you can't resignize your way through it. You can't convince yourself everything's gonna be fine. You made this thing. This is your atom bomb. You know. The truth is I'm the only person you can trust anymore because I know, Finn. I know everything I know about the rats and the cover ups and the human trial

has gone bad. And like you, I know that Shy, your brain child is dangerous and if next Corp your company lets it get into the wrong hands, a lot more people are gonna die. But we don't have much time because whoever is in that fucking gray van isn't here for some street fire to championship. Get up? Okay, made me in my place The rooftop garden. I'll tell you everything. Yeah, I snapped off the elevator and so Fincy and at the far end of the rooftop garden

on the ledge. I approached him cautiously. Are you okay? Don't worry, I'm not gonna jump. I just want to feel it. But feeling and pull, it's a strange phenomenon. Even though I'm a mentally stable person, I still have the thought, what if I just did it? What if I just jumped? The French call it the pell d V, the call of the void. Staring at the abyss, it stares back, Finn. I have some questions and I need straight honests. Okay, the trials. How did you select the participants?

Surely you knew several of the individuals in the sample group of higher risk. Why didn't you screen for PTSD and they take this position for skins of fail. We didn't screen out high probability candidates, Jack, We enlisted them. We used them. What we needed a clear vantage point for the causality of adverse effects, the potential for increases neuro toxicity across that particular demograts. What is this a cult?

When did cast brainwash you? You would agree to continue working on this when the danger because I had to. That was the only voice of reason. I was the last best hope for making shunn I safe. And I have what I've done, it done? What exactly made it safe? Jack? Kill switch? I've been working on an in secret. I knew we needed a governor in the system, and and I finally found it. It was in the delivery system. I solved the problem with Walter Fuller's nanites. I just

reprogrammed them with a simple regulator, a kill switch. How so, Well, if the nanites detect the sudden surge of cortisol levels in the brain, they just shut off and he swift. I think, so we need to go to the lab to see the lad. I started a new trial new rats thirteen days ago, so you know it was well. I suppose if the rats haven't eaten each other yet, Jack, then it works. And if they haven't, then all we need to do is get the kill switch into Max's rain and maybe we can get him back. You knew

what is time? What you knew that Max was changing? It wasn't clear at first. I mean mood swings, yeah, but Max has always had those. And then one day, you're talking, and he just looked at me differently, like there was someone else in the house. You know, I was already developing the kill switch, but that made me work a lot faster. Two ways he going to be Well, that part's an easy He'll be in Arlington, Virginian three days. Why he's signing everything over to the new owners of

Next Corps, the new owners of Shut Eye. I can put up a legal fight, but that's only gonna stall him. Now, that wouldn't be necessary. If we can get Max back, we'll fly out tomorrow. All right, you have the antidote. He's here with you. No, that is the hard part. It's in my lap, in my desk. I need to get back there before they confiscate everything they can do to Technically it's company property. I should go now while they're still at check. Okay, then go go go check

your rats, get the antidote and call me. Well where are you going? You know someone who can help. I'll meet you back here. Jack. What's your back? You too? Jenna Cole Agent bat dialing agent beating, Come on, come on, pick pick up. You've ranched Special Agent Beatty with the human enhancement administration. Don't forget to lead your number of folks. It's Jack, Jack. Look, I got your message. We need to meet in person. There is a lot you need

to know. I'm made of your way. Now. The man had fallen who was lying on on top of cross Cliver. Even his body was shattered, twisted, beading from everywhere. His limbs and neck were bent impossible angles, his bloody fingers reaching upwards towards the nice guy. The life was fading from him, and in his eyes I can see the horrifying confusion of a creature that didn't quite grasp what had happened to it. It wasn't until I stepped a few feet closer that my mind allowed the recognition of

the dying man's face. It was Finn. He was just staring ahead into the abyss. He almost looked peaceful as the terror faded and the life flickered out of his eyes. I backed away and I turned to leave the scene when I saw him standing there, David Truesdale, the combat there room from the homeless shelter. The guy Abby told me to interview. He just stepped out of the elevator in the lobby of Finn's building. Moments after Finn's body dropped, David Truesdale, one of the volunteers of the Next Corp

Trials along with my brother Michael. He was trenched in swearing m His pupils were dilated, more like an animal than a man. Then his eyes looked on mine, and he started walking towards me, walking fast. So I ran, and looking back over my shoulder, I saw him gave into the driversy of his gray hat, the gray van. Now I knew he was looked to that Tuesdale. He craned up, hid the gas peeled out after him. I

ran like him. Tomorrow's Monsters starring John Boyega as Jack Lock, Darren Chris as Max Fuller, Marley Shelton as Cass Berkeley, Clark Gregg as Walter Fuller, sah And Guja as David Trusdale, Nicholas Takowski as Finn Connelly, Claire Bronson as dr Abby Reynolds, David Chen as Michael Corbin, Suhila Elttar as Jenna, Victor Rivera as Eddie Bender, Robert Kraalgo as Agent Batty, Steve Coulter as Senator Berkeley, wrote A. Griffiths as Rainy Webb,

with additional performances by Helen Abel, Jason Williams, Michael Anthony, Robin Bloodworth, and Teresa Davis. Our first assistant director is Michael Monty. Our second assistant director is Sarah Klein. Sound and music by Ben Lovitt, Additional sound design and editing by Benjamin Belcolm, Justin Robowski and Mike Regan. Casting by Jessica Fox Thick Pen. Our executive producers are Scott Shelton, Shelby Thomas, Alexander Williams, and Matthew Frederick. Written by Dan

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