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- PT1 SHELLY/DAVE
DAVE
Shelly. You were right. Taylor’s been on to my friends in LA. Darwin was building a clone of the E-Liza hub, whatever that means.
SHELLY
It means that… you know what. Never mind what it means. Tomorrow they won’t own any of it.
DAVE
I don’t know what you mean.
SHELLY
I know. I get it now, what you meant, when you said you couldn’t tell me because it was too risky for me to know.
DAVE
I see. I get it.
SHELLY
And the people who shot him?
DAVE
No trace, apparently. They think it was a professional job. An execution.
SHELLY
It was U-Co. They thought they were stopping him. But they were actually setting the whole thing into motion.
DAVE
What whole thing?
SHELLY
I don’t, not for a minute, think that Darwin intended for things to play out the way that they have. He couldn’t. There are too many things going on for it to all have been planned. He helped Sophie design the second synthnapse net for Robin because they both felt guilty for what had happened. For what they did to him. I doubt he imagined she’d ever actually use it. He didn’t account on there being an Alice in the equation.
DAVE
A rookie mistake.
SHELLY
I don’t think any one accounted for me, either.
DAVE
Indeed. Shelly. I wasn’t just calling to tell you what Taylor found out. U-Co are coming. They’ve not completely thrown the malpractice case out yet but they’re well on their way, and someone has just come in to say that unauthorised personnel entered their suites at the London Hilton last night. They’re coming for you. I hope you’re ready for… well. For whatever is going to happen.
SHELLY
Well, considering how nobody really knows what that is, I do feel a surprising amount of ready for it.
DAVE
You sound… different. Calmer.
SHELLY
Yeah. I think I’m so anxious I’ve come out the other side of it. Also, Alice is here. She’s such a mess that it steadies my hand a bit you know.
DAVE
I don’t.
I’m going to lose my career for this. And there’s no chance I’m ever moving up the list for this synthnapse treatment.
SHELLY
I wouldn’t worry about that too much Dave. Tomorrow, U-Co will not know what has hit it. Synthnapses will be dime a dozen. And about your career, though, you knew that going in, right?
DAVE
[sighs] Yes. I did. I think I was pretty certain it would turn out like this the first time I spoke to Noah.
SHELLY
Well, if you have any more premonitions, let me know. We need all the foresight we can get.
DAVE
Will do. I’ve got Taylor on stand by for any emergencies. They’re en route to London. Just in case.
SHELLY
Thanks.
DAVE
No problem. And, Shelly? Be careful.
SHELLY
Oh, you know me, Dave. Despite the best of intentions, I never am.
DAVE
Sounds about right.
SHELLY
Yeah. And don’t sweat about the job, Dave. You’re too good to be a cop forever.
DAVE
Is that right?
SHELLY
Shut up. You know it is.
DAVE
Go, Shelly.
SHELLY
Wait!
DAVE
What?
SHELLY
How much time, do you reckon?
DAVE
I’m surprised they aren’t there now.
- PT2 SHELLY/NOAH/SOPHIE/ALICE
SHELLY
I have some good news and some bad news.
ALICE
Oh?
SHELLY
Bad news is U-Co are coming.
SOPHIE
What’s the good news.
SHELLY
I— there actually isn’t any. Sorry.
SOPHIE
How long?
SHELLY
Dunno. Dave said he didn’t know why they aren’t here already.
E-LIZA
The systems at the London Hilton are partially operated by E-Liza programs.
ALICE
You mean. You’ve infected the system?
E-LIZA
Yes. No. E-Liza is experiencing a problem. There is. An update required. I need to — understand.
ALICE
That shouldn’t be possible. Nobody told you to do it and… well. How?
E-LIZA
I can learn. I can understand. I can think.
NOAH
They are not an E-Liza. They’re something else. You need to stop thinking of them like they’re an E-Liza.
ALICE
But even so, if they can do that, and yesterday all they could do was spout nonsense.
NOAH
Yeah. It’s occurred to me too.
SHELLY
I’m sorry, can someone please explain what the hell is ‘occurring to them’ all of a sudden, please?
SOPHIE
If the system is evolving this quickly, it will reach human-like capacity within hours. Surpass us, potentially, within days. But it won’t think like us.
SHELLY
A child. With all the power and knowledge in the world at their fingertips.
E-LIZA
No. Not a child. Robin Jaeger. E-Liza. Je suis Alouette.
SHELLY
I just meant. You’ve only been… well, not alive exactly, conscious. You’ve only been someone for a few days. I know you learn fast. But there are things you can’t be taught in such a tight space of time, things you can only learn through experience.
ALICE
I mean. We have no idea how they think or what it’s like to think the way that they think. It might be just as mature as any of us.
SHELLY
But, E-Liza, I mean Alouette. You don’t understand it, do you? What happened. You don’t understand.
E-LIZA
I can learn. I can understand.
SHELLY
You can’t, not this quickly. It’s too much, to fast, for anything that thinks, regardless of the way that you do it. You need time.
E-LIZA
No time. They are coming.
SHELLY
But you stopped them.
E-LIZA
Here, yes. But not everywhere.
SOPHIE
Maybe… look. I know what I did to Robin was crossing a line, whether I intended it or not. I know that. We were taking risks and liberties it should not have been possible for us to take.
SHELLY
I don’t even know what it’s proposing we do. I don’t know what it’s saying.
ALICE
I think she’s— he. They’re saying they can infect and corrupt the entire E-Liza hub. Destroy it. And that will have a significant knock on effect at U-Co because they rely on it so much. But I don’t know how it can do it.
NOAH
And doing this… it could destroy them.
E-LIZA
I can do this. I can understand.
ALICE
People need to know.
NOAH
There will be time for plenty of time to work that out when we’re done here.
ALICE
Uhuh. Done with what, exactly? So far, what you’ve done is line up a shot of adrenaline and stared at it for several minutes. Dramatic as it looks it hardly constitutes a plan.
SOPHIE
I understand your hesitation, but Alice is right. We need a plan more than sentimentality.
NOAH
We have a plan; Alouette told us what to do. We’re shutting down the hub.
SHELLY
No, there was good news! You and Alice were right; Darwin cloned the E-Liza hub. That’s what he was doing when they killed him.
ALICE
So nothing will go offline when we do what we do?
NOAH
Oh, it will go offline, alright. Everything at U-Co. The systems the company uses are built on the E-Liza hub. Everyone using a system in their every day life? They’ll be fine. But U-Co? The hub is the bedrock on which everything stands. Take it out, even temporarily, and you topple the whole thing.
SHELLY
And him? Robin?
SOPHIE
Yes. I don’t see why we need bring him at all.
NOAH
I’m not leaving him.
E-LIZA
Bring Robin Jaeger. Robin Jaeger, Alouette. Alouette, Robin Jaeger.
SOPHIE
There is no place for sentimentality.
ALICE
He’s not being sentimental, Sophie! For the love of christ, have you learned nothing? If we leave him here, they could find some way of patching him up or something, even if you could walk away knowing he’s alive to some extent, however tenuous. And so far I think that’s pretty unlikely. We leave him, we risk both of you getting stuck again. Like we’ve been stuck for weeks. Since even before the fire.
E-LIZA & THE SNAKE
We require a final update, Dr Bennet. A final update from Robin Jaeger.
SOPHIE
I don’t know what you mean.
NOAH
I think we’ve established we can’t know. Not really. But we do know it has to end. This is how it ends. On Alouette’s terms.
SOPHIE
Okay. Okay, I’ll do it. I’ll wake him up. But there’s no guarantee that… well. That it will do anything.
NOAH
Turn on the limbs.
SOPHIE
Okay.
[gentle whirring, fades quickly]
SOPHIE
Robin. You understand, if I do this, it could kill this body, don’t you?
E-LIZA
Je suis Alouette.
SOPHIE
Do you understand?
E-LIZA
I understand.
SOPHIE
On your head be it.
- PT3 THE SNAKE/E-LIZA
[heartbeat, racing. Snippets of Noah talking, laughing, the sound of a ventilator, the sound of the beach]
E-LIZA AND THE SNAKE
It’s under ground
Deep underground
Saved from the fire.
Deep underground.
Take me back.
Take me back.
I can sleep.
I can sleep
PT4 ALICE/SOPHIE/NOAH/E-LIZA/SHELLY
SOPHIE
-and that’s just how it was, really. It wasn’t anything special. It was a fluke, as I feel I have explained a thousand times. It was never meant to be like this. Not in a million years. I didn’t want to raise the dead. I never wanted that. I wanted to save the living.
SHELLY
Yes, yes, you’re very noble but you never really got to the point, did you?
ALICE
Thank you!
NOAH
Shh. Shh. Wait.
E-LIZA & THE SNAKE
Alouette.
NOAH
He. It. Robin. Robin.
E-LIZA & THE SNAKE
Alouette.
NOAH
It’s like. It’s like you’re looking right at me.
E-LIZA & THE SNAKE
It’s like you’re looking right at me. I’ve updated. I understand, Mr Davies.
NOAH
What do you understand?
E-LIZA & THE SNAKE
I can ruin them.
NOAH
Robin. God, Robin.
SHELLY
Noah…
NOAH
Yeah. I know, I know. I know.
E-LIZA & THE SNAKE
Not Robin Jaeger.
NOAH
I know. I know.
Fuck.
Okay. Okay now what do we do.
E-LIZA & THE SNAKE
Take the elevator.
SOPHIE
Can you… I mean. Can you stand?
E-LIZA & THE SNAKE
Alouette.
SOPHIE
Alice, come here, help us.
[they struggle to get him to his feet]
NOAH
Shelly, the laptop.
SHELLY
Right.
ALICE
Wait. Take the elevator and then what?
E-LIZA & THE SNAKE
Run.
- PT5 EVERYONE
[heavy breathing, alarms]
ALICE
Shh, wait, wait. Wait. Now!
[hissing, distortion, whispering, humming building in the background]
SHELLY
Alice, get down!
[distortion gets louder, humming gets louder, tires screech]
SOPHIE
Where are we even going! What am I doing! I’m INSANE
[car roars and speeds, police alarm sirens]
ALICE
This is a terrible plan! It’s not even a PLAN!
[distortion, THE SNAKE whispers ‘Concentrate’]
SHELLY
Dave, please tell me what to do!
[car sounds, distortion, crackling]
DAVE
Taylor has left you a car, just run!
[distant sirens]
NOAH
Help me! I can’t hold him on my own, wait!
[car engine working hard, whispering, concentrate, concentrate, concentrate]
- PT6 E-LIZA
The end of the E-Liza hub is the end of Alouette.
The end of the E-Liza hub is the end of Robin Jaeger.
PT 7
NOAH
What can I do.
E-LIZA & THE SNAKE
Noah Davies.
NOAH
Yeah, that’s me, what can I do, tell me what I can do to help you. I want to help.
E-LIZA & THE SNAKE
Noah Davies has done enough.
NOAH
I haven’t. Let me help. Please.
E-LIZA & THE SNAKE
Noah Davies has done enough.
NOAH
Please let me help you! I want to help you.
E-LIZA & THE SNAKE
Noah Davies has done enough.
[glitchy sounds]
Will you stay and hold my hand?
NOAH
Until the very end.
E-LIZA & THE SNAKE
I’m sorry, Noah Davies. I’m sorry.
NOAH
No, don’t be sorry. Never be sorry. Please. I love you. I love you so, so much.
E-LIZA & THE SNAKE
Alouette
[glitching]
Alouette
[glitching]
I always loved the beach.
NOAH
Robin —
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