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divorce of '09.

( chuckles )

You know, at the time,

I thought that was

the end of the world.

- Whoa, what is that?

- ( music playing )

- You hear that?

- Yeah.

It's music.

Greetings, gentlemen.

Miss.

Welcome to Gaiten Academy.

If you folks need a place

to stay for the night,

we have plenty of rooms.

The boys who didn't have

cell phones have all run off.

The ones

who did have them--

Oh, we know about that.

I'm Jordan.

I'm a scholarship boy.

- I lived in Holloway.

- Good for you, Jordan.

Yes, sir.

That's what the Head

said, too.

Charles Ardai.

Headmaster.

Quite a problem these

cell phones have caused

now, isn't it?

( chuckles )

The devil's intercom

is what I used to call them.

Nice.

It's apt.

Clay:

What's with the music?

Did you ever play

musical chairs as a child?

- Yeah.

- Well, as long as the music

doesn't stop,

we've got nothing

to worry about.

We'll have a quick peek,

then we'll go over to

Cheatham Lodge for dinner.

It's not 200 yards to

Tonney Field, I promise.

( music continues )

Alice:

Holy sh*t.

Is the music coming

from their phones?

Charles:

Don't worry,

they won't wake up.

Tom:

How can you be

so sure of that?

Observe.

- What the hell

are you doing?

- ( c*cks gun )

Charles:

No, no, he's calm.

He's calm.

I could put my sword cane

right through his throat

and he wouldn't

try to stop me.

Nor would those around him

spring to his defense.

Of course, if I tried

it in the daylight,

they'd tear me limb

from limb.

The music comes from

their mouths, too.

It's not hardly a whisper,

but you can hear it.

- Come here.

- That's got to be

your imagination.

- There's no way that

they're actually talking.

- Come listen.

It's like

they don't breathe.

I can hear it.

I can hear it.

How is that even possible

without a transmitter?

They are transmitting.

It's a new skill they seem

to have picked up.

And they're changing

at an alarming rate.

Alice:

Can we please move

this conversation inside?

Please.

Charles:

We cannot overestimate

the developmental leaps

we're witnessing here.

They appear

to be eusocial.

Like a colony

of bees or ants.

They act for the good

of the group as a whole.

There's no competitiveness,

no selfishness.

In fact,

they may be the next

stage in human evolution.

Every human

on planet Earth

will be part

of one giant organism.

No individuality.

No privacy. Come on.

No war.

No resource depletion.

- No conflict.

- No, thank you.

As to what they're doing

at night as they lie

there so still,

open-eyed and listening

to their music,

we think

they're rebooting.

Yeah, I mean,

they might as well have

"software updating,

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