OtherLife Page #3

Sit down.

Listen up.

Remember the lifeline

from yesterday's meeting?

His name's Furlong McClean.

Now, there's Department of

Corrections and there's him.

- Corrections...

- He tells the minister

where to spend the federal budget

and he's prepared to put

money down, unencumbered.

- Prison?

- It's a government contract.

You're talking about a virtual prison.

Confinement. Imagine it...

A kid gets convicted, pays his

debt in the courthouse lobby,

a few minutes later, comes back...

Rehabilitated.

It's hard time without the time.

No. No. No way.

- Proof of concept's all we need.

- We're trying to broaden minds.

Not put them in a box.

Okay. So, you can have

your secret project,

but I can't innovate?

You want hardware and staff,

but won't let me raise the capital?

Not like this.

Well, then get back to work

on the actual f***ing product

all these people are here to create!

Hey.

What's up?

Nothing.

- Hey, you need to slow...

- Don't!

Do you want to go somewhere

and actually talk about it for once?

No.

I'll see you later.

Do you want to see something cool?

Whoa!

Whoo!

Uh...

Oh...

- I didn't think it'd be so real.

- Mmm.

As real as anything else.

Right. 'Cause memory is a chemical.

Everything is.

It's amazing.

Go. Go work.

Mind if I go again?

F***ing Sam.

He's still trying

to push this confinement app.

Do you know anything else about it?

Hey, Danny. Listen to me.

It's just a glitch.

Danny, you will be fine.

Danny, can you hear me?

Danny. Danny?

Oh, f***.

Hey, wake up.

Please.

Danny... No, no, no, no, wake up.

Wake up. Please.

Oh, my God.

F***!

Yes! I need an ambulance.

Thoroughly tested the drug

before administering a dose?

It's not a drug, it's biological software.

Sam, can we find counsel

who understands what we do?

Nobody understands what you do,

that's the problem.

- Did you check the software?

- I wrote it.

So, our defense is going to be

that you don't make mistakes.

Could you give us a minute?

Is this what I think it is?

- Is Danny okay?

- What happened?

I don't know.

Something I missed.

- Please, can you see...

- Three years of human trials,

twelve million in peer review from MIT,

- Caltech, Tokyo...

- They missed it, too.

Well, they never tested it

in the first place.

Ren, what is it?

It doesn't fit the adventure brief.

I didn't think you would be interested.

Right. You've been spending

thousands of hours

off in your own little world.

We're finished.

This is going to destroy us.

I hope whatever it is

you've been working on

is worth something.

What is your ambition

for this technology, Ms Amari?

Ms Amari, this is Mrs Wilson

from the Attorney General's office.

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